- Updated `etcd` version to `3.5.8`. ([#117335](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117335), [@kkkkun](https://github.com/kkkkun))
- Updated apiserver metric `request_filter_duration_seconds` to include a 10s, 15s and 30s bucket.
Updated apiserver metric `request_wait_duration_seconds` to include a 15s bucket. ([#118945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118945), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- Reduce default NodeStatusReportFrequency to 5 minutes. With this change, periodic node status updates will be send every 5m if node status doesn't change (otherwise they are still send with 10s).

  Bump NodeProblemDetector version to v0.8.0 to reduce forced NodeStatus updates frequency to 5 minutes. ([#84007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84007), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Wait for kubelet & kube-proxy to be ready on Windows node within 10s ([#85228](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85228), [@YangLu1031](https://github.com/YangLu1031)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

    * To avoid that negative effect only use per pod metrics from pods that are:
    * - ready (so metrics about them should be valid), or
    * - unready but creation and last readiness change timestamps are apart more than 10s (pods that have formerly been ready and so metrics are in at least some cases (pod becoming unready because of overload) very useful).

- Add a namespace label for all `apiserver_admission_* metrics`.
  Expand the histogram range to 0-10s for all `apiserver_admission_*_duration_seconds` metrics. ([#101208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101208), [@voutcn](https://github.com/voutcn))

  - `failurePolicy` default changed from `Ignore` to `Fail` for v1
  - `matchPolicy` default changed from `Exact` to `Equivalent` for v1
  - `timeout` default changed from `30s` to `10s` for v1
  - `sideEffects` default value is removed, and the field made required, and only `None` and `NoneOnDryRun` are permitted for v1