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* Introduce a new flag `--keepalive` for kubectl proxy to allow setting keep-alive period for long-running request. ([#63793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63793), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. The default behavior (proxy streaming requests through the kubelet) will be the only supported option. If you are setting `--redirect-container-streaming=true`, then you must migrate off this configuration. The flag will no longer be able to be enabled starting in v1.20. If you are not setting the flag, no action is necessary. ([#88290](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88290), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair)) [SIG API Machinery...

   consuming metrics via an aggregated version of the resource metrics API.

   - In version 1.8, enable this behavior by setting the
     `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `true`.

   - In version 1.9, this behavior will be enabled by default, and must be explicitly
     disabled by setting the `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `false`.

### Cluster Lifecycle

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixes the flooding warning messages about setting volume ownership for configmap/secret volumes ([#92878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92878), [@jvanz](https://github.com/jvanz)) [SIG Instrumentation, Node and Storage]

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until

* Avoid creating new controller revisions for statefulsets when cache is stale ([#67039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67039), [@mortent](https://github.com/mortent))
* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Kubelet: Fix kubelet from panic after getting the wrong signal ([#98200](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98200), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Kubelet: Fix repeatedly acquiring the inhibit lock ([#98088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98088), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

### Other notable changes

* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

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