- Upgrades `IPv6Dualstack` to `Beta` and turns it on by default. New clusters or existing clusters are not be affected until an actor starts adding secondary Pods and service CIDRS CLI flags as described here: [IPv4/IPv6 Dual-stack](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-network/563-dual-stack) ([#98969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98969), [@...

  - `metric_computation_total`: Number of metric computations. ([#116326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116326), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Apps, Autoscaling and Instrumentation]

* Fixes issue where an apiserver on 1.9 and controller-manager on 1.10 can cause volume provisioning and binding to fail. ([#71286](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71286), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))
* On GCI, NPD starts to monitor kubelet, docker, containerd crashlooping, read-only filesystem and corrupt docker overlay2 issues. ([#71522](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71522), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

#### **Audit**

* Include CRD for BGPConfigurations, needed for calico 2.x to 3.x upgrade. ([#71868](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71868), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))
* On GCI, NPD starts to monitor kubelet, docker, containerd crashlooping, read-only filesystem and corrupt docker overlay2 issues. ([#71522](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71522), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

* Kubeadm now includes CoreDNS version 1.6.5 ([#85108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85108), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))
    *  - `kubernetes` plugin adds metrics to measure kubernetes control plane latency.
    *  -  the `health` plugin now includes the `lameduck` option by default, which waits for a duration before shutting down.

- The new feature gate "SidecarContainers" is now available. This feature introduces sidecar containers, a new type of init container that starts before other containers but remains running for the full duration of the pod's lifecycle and will not block pod termination. ([#116429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116429), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG API Machinery,...

  or aggregated API servers. The garbage collector controller refreshes periodically.
  Therefore, expect a latency of about 30 seconds between when an API is added and when
  the garbage collector starts to manage it.


#### Monitoring/Prometheus

- The EndpointSlice controller now waits for EndpointSlice and Node caches to be synced before starting. ([#94086](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94086), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))