- For GCE cluster provider, fix bug of not being able to create internal type load balancer for clusters with more than 1000 nodes in a single zone. ([#89902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89902), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Scalability]

* Fixes an issue where Portworx volumes cannot be mounted if 9001 port is already in use on the host and users remap 9001 to another port. ([#70392](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70392), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))

* Introduced `--http2-max-streams-per-connection` command line flag on api-servers and set default to 1000 for aggregated API servers. ([#60054](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60054), [@MikeSpreitzer](https://github.com/MikeSpreitzer))

 - Fixes a bug defining a default value for a replicas field in a custom resource definition that has the scale subresource enabled ([#90020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90020), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

* Bump GCI to gci-beta-56-9000-80-0 ([#41027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41027), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))
* Fix for detach volume when node is not present/ powered off ([#40118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40118), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))

* Bump GCI
* to gci-beta-56-9000-80-0 ([#41027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41027), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))
* to gci-stable-56-9000-84-2 ([#41819](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41819), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))
* Bump GCE ContainerVM

## Changes since v1.1.1

### Major Themes

  * <strong>Significant scale improvements</strong>. Increased cluster scale by 400% to 1000 nodes with 30,000 pods per cluster.
Kubelet supports 100 pods per node with 4x reduced system overhead.
  * <strong>Simplified application deployment and management. </strong>

  * Fix problems with >2 security groups
* GCP:
  * Enable using gcr.io as a Docker registry mirror.
  * Make bigger master root disks in GCE for large clusters.
  * Change default clusterCIDRs from /16 to /14 allowing 1000 Node clusters by default.
  * Allow Debian Jessie on GCE.
  * Node problem detector addon pod detects and reports kernel deadlocks.
* OpenStack
  * Provider added.
* VSphere:
  * Provider updated.

- For GCE cluster provider, fix bug of not being able to create internal type load balancer for clusters with more than 1000 nodes in a single zone. ([#89902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89902), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Scalability]

- The Endpoints controller will now set the `endpoints.kubernetes.io/over-capacity` annotation to "warning" when an Endpoints resource contains more than 1000 addresses. In a future release, the controller will truncate Endpoints that exceed this limit. The EndpointSlice API can be used to support significantly larger number of addresses. ([#99975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99975), [...