* genericapiserver: cut off pkg/serviceaccount dependency ([#39945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39945), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* genericapiserver: cut off pkg/apis/extensions and pkg/storage dependencies ([#39946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39946), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

- In-tree cloud providers are now switched off by default. Please use `DisableCloudProviders` and `DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProvider` feature flags if you still need this functionality. ([#117503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117503), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Kubeadm: added the "--cleanup-tmp-dir" flag for `kubeadm reset`. It will cleanup the contents of `/etc/kubernetes/tmp`. The flag is off by default. ([#112172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112172), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))

  `volume_manager_total_volumes`
  ([#84907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84907), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))
- Deprecated metric `rest_client_request_latency_seconds` has been turned off. ([#83836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83836), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))
- Following metrics from kubelet are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level:
  `node_cpu_usage_seconds_total`

- Changed how KMS v2 encryption at rest can generate data encryption keys. When you enable the `KMSv2KDF` feature gate (off by default), KMS v2 uses a key derivation function to generate single use data...

- Promote CSIMigrationOpenStack to Beta (off by default since it requires installation of the OpenStack Cinder CSI Driver. The in-tree AWS OpenStack Cinder driver "kubernetes.io/cinder" was deprecated in 1.16 and will be removed in 1.20. Users should enable CSIMigration + CSIMigrationOpenStack...

* Fixed scanning of failed iSCSI targets. ([#74306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74306), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* fix detach azure disk back off issue which has too big lock in failure retry condition ([#76573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76573), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Advanced auditing is the default auditing mechanism at `v1beta1`. The new version introduces the following changes:

  * The `--audit-policy-file` option is required if the `AdvancedAuditing` feature is not explicitly turned off (`--feature-gates=AdvancedAuditing=false`) on the API server.
  * The audit log file defaults to JSON encoding when using the advanced auditing feature gate.