* iSCSI sessions managed by kubernetes will now explicitly set startup.mode to 'manual' to  prevent automatic login after node failure recovery. This is the default open-iscsi mode, so this change will only impact users who have changed their startup.mode to be 'automatic' in /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf. ([#57475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57475), [@stmcginnis](https://github.com/stmcginnis))

serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion` feature gate. ([#124007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124007),...

*   Development of Kubernetes Federation has moved to [github.com/kubernetes/federation](https://github.com/kubernetes/federation). This move out of tree also means that Federation will begin releasing separately from Kubernetes. Impact:
    *   Federation-specific behavior will no longer be included in kubectl
    *   kubefed will no longer be released as part of Kubernetes

- Performance regression #97685 has been fixed....

serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion` feature gate. ([#124006](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124006),...

For more information and for updates on resolution of this issue, see [#51899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/51899).

that denies admission based at least partially on the old state of the
Node object.

**Note**: This only impacts validating admission plugins that rely on old
values in certain fields, and does not impact calls from kubelets that go
through the built-in NodeRestriction admission plugin.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.20.0 - v1.20.5
  - kube-apiserver v1.19.0 - v1.19.9
  - kube-apiserver <= v1.18.17

* Respect fstype in Windows for azure disk ([#61267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61267), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Unready pods will no longer impact the number of desired replicas when using horizontal auto-scaling with external metrics or object metrics. ([#60886](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60886), [@mattjmcnaughton](https://github.com/mattjmcnaughton))

* Images based on debian-base no longer include the libsystemd0 package. This should have no user-facing impact. ([#69995](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69995), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))
    * Additionally, the addon-manager image is updated to use kubectl v1.11.3.

serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion` feature gate. ([#123973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123973),...