* Cluster Autoscaler 0.6.2 ([#52359](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52359), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* Add --request-timeout to kube-apiserver to make global request timeout configurable. ([#51415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51415), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

  // between the number of matching pods in the target topology and the global minimum.
  // The global minimum is the minimum number of matching pods in an eligible domain
  // or zero if the number of eligible domains is less than MinDomains.
  // For example, in a 3-zone cluster, MaxSkew is set to 1, and pods with the same
  // labelSelector spread as 2/2/1:
  // In this case, the global minimum is 1.
  // +-------+-------+-------+

    * --docker-tls
    * --docker-tls-ca
    * --docker-tls-cert
    * --docker-tls-key
    * --enable_load_reader
    * --event_storage_age_limit
    * --event_storage_event_limit
    * --global_housekeeping_interval
    * --google-json-key
    * --log_cadvisor_usage
    * --machine_id_file
    * --storage_driver_user
    * --storage_driver_password
    * --storage_driver_host

    * <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/dependencies/global-dependencies/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Tutorial - Dependencies - Global Dependencies</a>.

* 📝 Add FastAPI monitoring blog post to External Links. PR [#2324](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/2324) by [@louisguitton](https://github.com/louisguitton).

multiple clusters ensures that cluster-level autoscalers are
consistently deployed across those clusters, and dynamically managed
to ensure that autoscaling can occur optimially in all clusters,
within a set of global constraints on the total number of replicas
permitted across all clusters.  If replicas are not
required in some clusters due to low system load or insufficient quota

- The apimachinery util/net function used to detect the bind address `ResolveBindAddress()` takes into consideration global IP addresses on loopback interfaces when 1) the host has default routes, or 2) there are no global IPs on those interfaces in order to support more complex network scenarios like BGP Unnumbered RFC 5549 ([#95790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95790), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))...

pkg io/fs, type FileInfo interface, Size() int64
pkg io/fs, type FileInfo interface, Sys() interface{}
pkg io/fs, type FileMode uint32
pkg io/fs, type GlobFS interface { Glob, Open }
pkg io/fs, type GlobFS interface, Glob(string) ([]string, error)
pkg io/fs, type GlobFS interface, Open(string) (File, error)
pkg io/fs, type PathError struct
pkg io/fs, type PathError struct, Err error
pkg io/fs, type PathError struct, Op string

kubelet, log verbosity and flush frequency can also be configured via the configuration file and not just via command line flags. In other commands (kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager), the flags are listed in the "Logs flags" group and not under "Global" or "Misc". The type for `-vmodule` was made a bit more descriptive (`pattern=N,...` instead of `moduleSpec`). ([#106090](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106090), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture,...

* `kubectl patch` now supports `--dry-run`. ([#60675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60675), [@timoreimann](https://github.com/timoreimann))
* The global flag `--match-server-version` is now global.  `kubectl version` will respect it. ([#63613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63613), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- **Overhauled metrics**: Kubernetes has previously made extensive use of a global metrics registry to register metrics to be exposed. By implementing a metrics registry, metrics are registered in more transparent means. Previously, Kubernetes metrics have been excluded from any kind of stability requirements.