* Support metrics API in `kubectl top` commands. ([#56206](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56206), [@brancz](https://github.com/brancz))

* Bump GCE metadata proxy to v0.1.9 to pick up security fixes. ([#58221](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58221), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))

- Added new feature gate `ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange`, to enable the new strategy in the `NodePort` Service port allocators, so the node port range is subdivided and dynamic allocated `NodePort` port for Services are allocated preferentially from the upper range. ([#114418](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114418), [@xuzhenglun](https://github.com/xuzhenglun))

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- Fixed a race condition on API server startup ensuring previously created webhook configurations are effective before the first write request is admitted. ([#95783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95783), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Added `--concurrency` flag to configure the concurrency of `kubectl diff` execution, defaults to 1. ([#118810](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118810), [@brancz](https://github.com/brancz))
- Added `ConsistentListFromCache` feature gate that allows apiserver to serve consistent lists from cache. ([#118508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118508), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

* When using IP aliases, use a secondary range rather than subnetwork to reserve cluster IPs. ([#51690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51690), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))
* IPAM controller unifies handling of node pod CIDR range allocation. ([#51374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51374), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))

* Fix a race condition in the scheduler preemption logic that could cause nominatedNodeName of a pod not to be considered in one or more scheduling cycles. ([#72504](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72504), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- Expand scheduler priority functions and scheduling framework plugins' node score range to [0, 100]. Note: this change is internal and does not affect extender and RequestedToCapacityRatio custom priority, which are still expected to provide a [0, 10] range. ([#83522](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83522), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

### Storage

- Added `kubelet_container_log_size_bytes` metric representing the log file size of a container. ([#70749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70749), [@brancz](https://github.com/brancz))

* Fix data race in node lifecycle controller ([#60831](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60831), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))
* Nodes are not deleted from kubernetes anymore if node is shutdown in Openstack. ([#59931](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59931), [@zetaab](https://github.com/zetaab))