- Kube-proxy: Traffic from the cluster directed to ExternalIPs is always sent directly to the Service. ([#96296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96296), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

  - When registering with a 1.17+ API server, a CustomResourceDefinition conversion webhook can now request that only `v1` ConversionReview requests be sent to them. Previously, conversion webhooks were required to support receiving `v1beta1` ConversionReview...

- Gracefully delete nodes when their parent scale set went missing ([#95289](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95289), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* fix Azure Container Registry anonymous repo image pull error ([#74715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74715), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixes an issue with missing apiVersion/kind in object data sent to admission webhooks ([#74448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74448), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* fix apps DeploymentSpec conversion issue ([#49719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49719), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
* fluentd-gcp addon: Fix a bug in the event-exporter, when repeated events were not sent to Stackdriver. ([#50511](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50511), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

- Set metrics-server's metric-resolution to 15s. ([#117121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117121), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]
- SubjectAccessReview requests sent to webhook authorizers now default `spec.resourceAttributes.version` to `*` if unset. ([#116937](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116937), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan)) [SIG Apps and Auth]

* Fix panic in kubectl cp command ([#75037](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75037), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Fixes an issue with missing apiVersion/kind in object data sent to admission webhooks ([#74448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74448), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fixes an issue with missing apiVersion/kind in object data sent to admission webhooks ([#74448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74448), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- The `AdmissionReview` API sent to and received from admission webhooks has been promoted to `admission.k8s.io/v1`. Webhooks can specify a preference for receiving `v1` AdmissionReview objects with `admissionReviewVersions: ["v1","v1beta1"]`, and must respond with an API object in the same `apiVersion` they are sent. When webhooks use `admission.k8s.io/v1`, the following additional validation is performed on their responses:...