- Add `permit_wait_duration_seconds` metric to the scheduler. ([#84011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84011), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))

### Deprecated/changed metrics

* fix get azure accounts timeout issue when there is no out-bound IP ([#74191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74191), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* kubelet: resolved hang/timeout issues when running large numbers of pods with unique configmap/secret references ([#74755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Pod log attempts are now reported in apiserver prometheus metrics with verb `CONNECT` since they can run for very long periods of time. ([#50123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50123), [@WIZARD-CXY](https://github.com/WIZARD-CXY))

- Fixed a bug where startupProbe stopped working after a container's first restart ([#101093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101093), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed port-forward memory leak for long-running and heavily used connections. ([#99839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99839), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

  and `sync_partial_proxy_rules_duration_seconds` (in addition to the existing
  `sync_proxy_rules_duration_seconds`), to give better information about how long
  each sync type is taking, rather than only giving a weighted average of the two
  sync types together. ([#117787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117787), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

* Configurable liveness probe initial delays for etcd and kube-apiserver in GCE ([#57749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57749), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Fixed garbage collection hang ([#57503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57503), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix SessionAffinity not updated issue for Azure load balancer ([#64180](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64180), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixes a hang on kubelet startup when using systemd cgroup driver of libcontainer. ([#61926](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61926), [@filbranden](https://github.com/filbranden))

- Added support for installing `arm64` node artifacts. ([#99242](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99242), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))

  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4985: If you previously included .git in an AWS or Azure URL, we will no longer automatically remove that suffix. You may need to add an...

* kubelet: resolved hang/timeout issues when running large numbers of pods with unique configmap/secret references ([#74755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))