- Added support for installing `arm64` node artifacts. ([#99242](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99242), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))

- HPA controller exposes the following metrics from the kube-controller-manager. 
  - `metric_computation_duration_seconds`: The time(seconds) that the HPA controller takes to calculate one metric.

  `delete`, `describe`, `edit`, `get`, `label,` and `set`. `--include-uninitialized=true` makes
  kubectl commands apply to uninitialized objects, which by default are ignored
  if the names of the objects are not provided. `--all` also makes kubectl
  commands apply to uninitialized objects. See the

- Kube-controller-manager: the dynamic resource controller steps in when a pod got created such that the scheduler ignores it (i.e. spec.nodeName is set) and then takes care of triggering delayed resource claim allocation and/or reserving a claim for the pod. ([#118209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118209), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Node and Testing]

- Kubeadm: add the RootlessControlPlane kubeadm specific feature gate (Alpha in 1.22, disabled by default).
  It can be used to enable an experimental feature that makes the control plane component static Pod containers 

- Added the latest GCE pinhole firewall feature, which introduces `destination-ranges` in the ingress `firewall-rules`. It restricts access to the backend IPs by allowing traffic through `ILB` or `NetLB` only. This change does **NOT** change the existing `ILB` or `NetLB` behavior. ([#109510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109510),...

- Health check of kube-controller-manager now includes each controller. ([#104667](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104667), [@jiahuif](https://github.com/jiahuif))
- Integration testing now takes periodic Prometheus scrapes from the etcd server.

- A new kubelet metric `image_pull_duration_seconds` was added. The metric tracks the duration (in seconds) it takes for an image to be pulled, including the time spent in the waiting queue of image puller. The metric is broken down by bucketed image size. ([#121719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121719), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))...

  node drain helper callback. ([#117502](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117502), [@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev))

- A new `pod_status_sync_duration_seconds` histogram is reported at alpha metrics stability that estimates how long the Kubelet takes to write a pod status change once it is detected. ([#107896](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107896), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Apps, Architecture, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation,...