*   deviceplugin has been extended to more gracefully handle the full device plugin lifecycle, including: ([#55088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55088),[ @jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))
    *   Kubelet now uses an explicit cm.GetDevicePluginResourceCapacity() function that makes it possible to more accurately determine what resources are inactive and return a more accurate view of available resources.

authz mode is set to "AlwaysAllow" if you rely on the command line, but defaults to the more secure "Webhook" mode if you load config from a file. ([#59666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59666), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

* [GCP kube-up.sh] Variables that were part of kube-env that were only used for kubelet flags are no longer being set, and are being replaced by the more portable mechanism of the kubelet configuration file. The individual variables in the...

  Retry FibreChannel devices cleanup after error to ensure FC device is detached before it can be used on another node. (#102656, @jsafrane) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Storage]
- Support more than 100 disk mounts on Windows (#105673, @andyzhangx) [SIG Storage and Windows]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- k8s.io/kube-openapi: 591a79e → 3cc51fd

- Fix computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter.
  
  Also, compute the backoff delay more accurately for deleted pods. ([#119466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119466), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

volume availability, the API now enables volume resizing and snapshotting. These features are in alpha.
The SIG also focused on providing more control over storage: the ability to set requests and
limits on ephemeral storage, the ability to specify mount options, more metrics, and improvements to Flex driver deployments.

[SIG Storage]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-storage

## Before Upgrading

### SIG GCP

- GCE: decrease cpu requests on master node, to allow more components to fit on one core machine. ([#67504](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67504), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

- Disable watchcache for events.k8.io/Event resource for compatibility with core/Event. ([#96117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96117), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Scalability]

development of [ephemeral containers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/ephemeral-containers/), it became more obvious how we can support developers with tooling built on top of `kubectl exec`. The addition of the `kubectl debug` [command](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-cli/1441-kubectl-debug/README.md) (it is alpha but your feedback is more than welcome), allows developers to easily debug their Pods inside the cluster. We think this addition is invaluable....

  Depending on the value returned from QueueingHintFn, the scheduling queue changes how it queues each Pod:
  - if more than one QueueingHintFn returns QueueImmediately, it queues Pod to activeQ.
  - If no QueueingHintFn returns QueueImmediately and more than one plugin returns QueueAfterBackoff, it queues Pod to backoffQ if Pod is backing off, or to activeQ if Pod's backoff has already finished.

* `kubectl wait` is a new command that allows waiting for one or more resources to be deleted or to reach a specific condition. It adds a `kubectl wait --for=[delete|condition=condition-name] resource/string` command. ([#64034](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64034), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))