- Graduated seccomp profile defaulting to GA.
  
  Set the kubelet `--seccomp-default` flag or `seccompDefault` kubelet configuration field to `true` to make pods on that node default to using the `RuntimeDefault` seccomp profile.
  

*   You can now disable AppArmor by setting the AppArmor profile to unconfined. ([#52395](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52395),[ @dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  - Kube-scheduler can run more than one scheduling profile. Given a pod, the profile is selected by using its `.spec.schedulerName`. ([#88285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88285), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps, Scheduling and Testing]

- Fixed performance regression in scheduler caused by frequent metric lookup on critical code path. ([#117594](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117594), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k))
- Fixed restricted debug profile. ([#117543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117543), [@mochizuki875](https://github.com/mochizuki875))

* Start synchronizing pods after network is ready.  ([#68752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68752), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))
* kubectl has gained new --profile and --profile-output options to output go profiles ([#68681](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68681), [@dlespiau](https://github.com/dlespiau))

- Adds profile label to kube-scheduler metric framework_extension_point_duration_seconds ([#92268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92268), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Instrumentation and Scheduling]
- Adds profile label to kube-scheduler metric schedule_attempts_total

With cluster-wide seccomp defaults, the kubelet uses the `RuntimeDefault` seccomp profile by default, rather than than `Unconfined`. This allows enhancing the default cluster wide workload security of the Kubernetes deployment. Security administrators will now sleep better knowing there...

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Remove `NodeLease` feature gate that was graduated and locked to stable in 1.17 release. ([#105222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105222), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))
- Removed deprecated `--seccomp-profile-root`/`seccompProfileRoot` config. ([#103941](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103941), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))