*   Added the concurrent service sync flag to the Cloud Controller Manager to allow changing the number of workers. (`--concurrent-service-syncs`) ([#55561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55561),[ @jhorwit2](https://github.com/jhorwit2))

- Update kube-apiserver's priority & fairness work estimator such that 'max seats' is MIN(0.15 x nominalCL, nominalCL / handSize)
  
  This fixes a bug where clients with requests using hand size x max seats greater than the nominal concurrency limit can starve other requests in the same priority level. ([#118601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118601), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106354, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106113, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]
- Fixed very rare volume corruption when a pod is deleted while kubelet is offline.

* Get public IP for Azure vmss nodes. ([#68498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* adjusted http/2 buffer sizes for apiservers to prevent starvation issues between concurrent streams ([#67902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67902), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- In the API Priority and Fairness feature, priority levels that are exempt from limitation can now be given a nominal and a lendable concurrency and their dispatching borrows from the concurrency limits of the other priority levels.  For details see https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-api-machinery/1040-priority-and-fairness#dispatching . ([#118782](https://github.com/kubernetes/kube...

- Azure: fix a bug that kube-controller-manager would panic if wrong Azure VMSS name is configured ([#94306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94306), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix a concurrent map writes error in kubelet ([#93773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93773), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Node]

* fix data loss issue if using existing azure disk with partitions in disk mount  ([#63270](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63270), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed API server panic during concurrent GET or LIST requests with non-empty `resourceVersion`. ([#65092](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65092), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Added a new metric `apiserver_flowcontrol_request_concurrency_in_use` that shows the number of
  seats (concurrency) occupied by the currently executing requests in the API Priority and Fairness system. ([#102795](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102795), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Watch requests that are delegated to aggregated API servers no longer reserve concurrency units (seats) in the API Priority and Fairness dispatcher for their entire duration. ([#105511](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105511), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy))

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