to its pre-1.27 behavior of tracking the total number of iptables rules that
  kube-proxy is responsible for, rather than only counting the number of rules
  that it re-synced on the last sync. The new `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_last`
  metric now gives the latter number. ([#119140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119140), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

- Kubeadm: added the experimental (alpha) feature gate `EtcdLearnerMode` that allows etcd members to be joined as learner and only then promoted as voting members ([#113318](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113318), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- Kubelet: Fix repeatedly acquiring the inhibit lock ([#98088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98088), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Kubelet: Fixed the bug of getting the number of cpu when the number of cpu logical processors is more than 64 in windows ([#97378](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97378), [@hwdef](https://github.com/hwdef)) [SIG Node and Windows]

* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- The `apiserver` exposes 4 new metrics that allow to track the status of the Service CIDRs allocations:
      - current number of available IPs per Service CIDR
      - current number of used IPs per Service CIDR
      - total number of allocation per Service CIDR
      - total number of allocation errors per ServiceCIDR ([#104119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104119), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- Kubeadm: modified the etcd static Pod `liveness` and `readiness` probes to use a new etcd `v3.5.3+` HTTP(s) health check endpoint `/health?serializable=true` that allows to track the health of individual etcd members and not fail all members if a single member is not healthy in the etcd cluster. ([#110072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110072), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Remove a v1alpha1 networking API for ClusterCIDRConfig ([#109436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109436), [@JamesLaverack](https://github.com/JamesLaverack))
- Renamed metrics `evictions_number` to `evictions_total` and mark it as stable. The original `evictions_number` metrics name is marked as "Deprecated" and has been removed in kubernetes 1.23 . ([#106366](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106366), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

- The new flag `--chunk-size=SIZE` has been added to `kubectl describe`. This flag may be used to alter the number of items or disable this feature when `0` is passed. ([#101171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101171),...

- Enabled concurrent log rotation in kubelet. You can now configure the maximum number of concurrent rotations with the `containerLogMaxWorkers` setting, and adjust the monitoring interval with `containerLogMonitorInterval`. ([#114301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114301), [@harshanarayana](https://github.com/harshanarayana))...

- Fixed the issue where pod with ordinal number lower than the rolling partitioning number was being deleted. It was coming up with updated image. ([#120731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120731), [@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev))