* Bound cloud allocator to 10 retries with 100 ms delay between retries. ([#61375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61375), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

- Fixed `--retries` functionality for negative values in `kubectl cp` ([#108748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108748), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree))

  - The `export` query parameter for list API calls, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.
  - The `series.state` field in the events.k8s.io/v1beta1 Event API is deprecated and will be removed in v1.18 ([#75987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75987), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

  - Serve from cache for the whole period of ongoing throttling
  - Fix unwanted VMSS VMs cache invalidation
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating
  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags
  - Add missing stable labels in template nodes

- Changed kubectl describe to compute Age of an event using the count and lastObservedTime fields available in the event series ([#104482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104482), [@harjas27](https://github.com/harjas27)) [SIG CLI]

- Update the Event series starting count when emitting isomorphic events from 1 to 2. ([#119376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119376), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

## Dependencies

### 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))

*   Fixed a bug so that the service controller no longer retries if doNotRetry service update fails. ([#54184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54184),[ @MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

  // Time when this Event was first observed.
  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.MicroTime eventTime = 10;

  // Data about the Event series this event represents or nil if it's a singleton Event.
  // +optional
  optional EventSeries series = 11;

  // What action was taken/failed regarding to the Regarding object.
  // +optional
  optional string action = 12;

  - The `export` query parameter for list API calls, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.
  - The `series.state` field in the events.k8s.io/v1beta1 Event API is deprecated and will be removed in v1.18 ([#75987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75987), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

- kubeadm