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### **Cluster Lifecycle**

*   kube-apiserver: `--ssh-user` and `--ssh-keyfile` are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Users of SSH tunnel functionality in Google Container Engine for the Master -> Cluster communication should plan alternate methods for bridging master and node networks. ([#54433](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54433),[ @dims](https://github.com/dims))

* Ensure euqiv hash calculation is per schedule ([#59245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59245), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

* Upped the timeout for apiserver communication in the juju kubernetes-worker charm. ([#59219](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59219), [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346))

* Introduce policy to allow the HPA to consume the metrics.k8s.io and custom.metrics.k8s.io API groups. ([#52572](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52572), [@DirectXMan12](https://github.com/DirectXMan12))
* kubelet to master communication when doing node status updates now has a timeout to prevent indefinite hangs ([#52176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52176), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Resolves bottleneck in internal API server communication that can cause increased goroutines and degrade API Server performance ([#80465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80465), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))