- In the API Priority and Fairness feature, priority levels that are exempt from limitation can now be given a nominal and a lendable concurrency and their dispatching borrows from the concurrency limits of the other priority levels.  For details see https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-api-machinery/1040-priority-and-fairness#dispatching . ([#118782](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118782), [@Mik...

    - [PID Limits graduates to General Availability](#pid-limits-graduates-to-general-availability)
    - [API Priority and Fairness graduates to Beta](#api-priority-and-fairness-graduates-to-beta)
    - [IPv4/IPv6 run](#ipv4ipv6-run)
    - [go1.15.5](#go1155)
    - [CSI Volume Snapshot graduates to General Availability](#csi-volume-snapshot-graduates-to-general-availability)

- Added field-selector option for `kubectl top pod` ([#102155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102155), [@lauchokyip](https://github.com/lauchokyip)) [SIG CLI]

- Two changes to the `/debug/api_priority_and_fairness/dump_priority_levels` endpoint of API Priority and Fairness: added total number of dispatched, timed-out, rejected and cancelled requests; output now sorted by `PriorityLevelName`. ([#112393](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112393), [@borgerli](https://github.com/borgerli))...

- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]
- Update kube-apiserver's priority & fairness work estimator such that 'max seats' is MIN(0.15 x nominalCL, nominalCL / handSize)
  

- Fix list cost estimation in Priority and Fairness for list requests with metadata.name specified. ([#112557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112557), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Update default API priority-and-fairness config to avoid endpoint/configmaps operations from controller-manager to all match leader-election priority level. ([#106725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106725), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Feature

- A new Priority and Fairness metric 'apiserver_flowcontrol_work_estimate_seats_samples' has been 

- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]
- Update kube-apiserver's priority & fairness work estimator such that 'max seats' is MIN(0.15 x nominalCL, nominalCL / handSize)
  

## Changelog since v1.18.18

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 

- Priority and Fairness feature is now `stable`, the feature gate will be removed in `v1.31`. ([#121638](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121638), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))