* RBAC: the `system:node` role is no longer automatically granted to the `system:nodes` group in new clusters. It is recommended that nodes be authorized using the `Node` authorization mode instead. Installations that wish to continue giving all members of the `system:nodes` group the `system:node` role (which grants broad read access, including all secrets and configmaps) must create an installation-specific `ClusterRoleBinding`. ([#...

- Fixes v1.17.0 regression in --service-cluster-ip-range handling with IPv4 ranges larger than 65536 IP addresses ([#86534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86534), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Network]

* Pass cluster_location argument to Heapster ([#65176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65176), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))
* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))

* Fixes v1.17.0 regression in --service-cluster-ip-range handling with IPv4 ranges larger than 65536 IP addresses ([#86534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86534), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Allow for configuring etcd hostname in the manifest ([#54403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54403), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* - kubeadm  will warn users if access to IP ranges for Pods or Services will be done via HTTP proxy. ([#52792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52792), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

* fix smb mount issue ([#65751](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65751), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))

- PodSecurityPolicy objects now support a `MayRunAs` rule for `fsGroup` and `supplementalGroups` options. This allows specifying ranges of allowed GIDs for pods/containers without forcing a default GID the way `MustRunAs` does. This means that a container to which such a policy applies to won't use any fsGroup/supplementalGroup GID if not explicitly specified, yet a specified GID...

* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))

- GCE clusters will include some IP ranges that are not used on the public Internet in the list of non-masq IPs. Bumped ip-masq-agent version to v2.3.0 with flag `nomasq-all-reserved-ranges` turned on. ([#77458](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77458), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))

#### Security
* Features:

  * Permission to use a PodSecurityPolicy can now be granted within a single namespace by allowing the use verb on the podsecuritypolicies resource within the namespace. ([#42360](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42360), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))