allows any existing storage driver that supports dynamic provisioning to be used as an ephemeral volume with the volume’s lifecycle bound to the Pod. It can be used to provide scratch storage that is different from the root disk, for example persistent memory, or a separate local disk on that node. All StorageClass parameters for volume provisioning are supported. All features supported with PersistentVolumeClaims are supported, such as storage capacity tracking, snapshots and restore, and volume resizing....

  
  To activate this feature, users can set the `ENABLE_CLIENT_GO_WATCH_LIST_ALPHA` environmental variable.
  It is important to note that the server must support streaming for this feature to function properly.
  If streaming is not supported by the server, the reflector will revert to the previous method

/pull/51921))

* [Alpha] The Kubernetes API server now supports the ability to break large LIST calls into multiple smaller chunks. A client can specify a limit to the number of results to return. If more results exist, a token is returned that allows the client to continue the previous list call repeatedly until all results are retrieved.  The resulting list is identical to a list call that does not perform chunking, thanks to capabilities provided by etcd3.  This allows the server to...

  controller loop removes service account token secrets that have not been used
  in the time specified by `--legacy-service-account-token-clean-up-period` (defaulting
  to one year), **and are** referenced from the `.secrets` list of a ServiceAccount
  object, **and are not** referenced from pods. ([#115554](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115554), [@yt2985](https://github.com/yt2985))

- Azure: Skip "instance not found" error for LB backend address pools ([#111428](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111428), [@lzhecheng](https://github.com/lzhecheng)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix list cost estimation in Priority and Fairness for list requests with metadata.name specified. ([#112557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112557), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112401), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG API Machinery]

  - *apiserver_cache_list_returned_objects_total*: Counter of objects returned for a LIST request from watch cache, broken down by resource_prefix
  - *apiserver_storage_list_total*: Counter of LIST requests served from etcd, broken down by resource

### Bug or Regression

- Fix list cost estimation in Priority and Fairness for list requests with metadata.name specified. ([#112557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112557), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fix non-recursive list returning "resource version too high" error when consistent list from cache is enabled ([#123674](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123674), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Adds `apiserver_watch_list_duration_seconds` metrics. Which will measure response latency distribution in seconds for watch list requests broken by group, version, resource and scope ([#120490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120490), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]