* kube-apiserver: a request body of a CREATE/UPDATE/PATCH/DELETE resource operation larger than 100 MB will return a 413 "request entity too large" error. ([#73805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73805), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

* Audit logs might impact the API server performance and the latency of large request and response calls. The issue is observed under the following conditions: if `AdvancedAuditing` feature gate is enabled, which is the default case, if audit logging uses the log backend in JSON format, or if the audit policy records large API calls for requests or responses.

* Fix v1.17.0 regression in reflector relist causing master rolling upgrade to fail for large clusters due to excessive list calls to etcd ([#86824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86824), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- Fix: incorrect max azure disk max count ([#92331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92331), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fixed bug in reflector that couldn't recover from "Too large resource version" errors with API servers 1.17.0-1.18.5 ([#94316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94316), [@janeczku](https://github.com/janeczku)) [SIG API Machinery]

- `client-go`: Improved memory use of reflector caches when watching large numbers
  of objects which do not change frequently. ([#113362](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113362), [@sxllwx](https://github.com/sxllwx))

*   [beta] Flag `--chunk-size={SIZE}` is added to `kubectl get` to customize the number of results returned in large lists of resources. This reduces the perceived latency of managing large clusters because the server returns the first set of results to the client much more quickly. Pass 0 to disable this feature.([#53768](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53768),[ @smarterclayton](htt...

* Pass cluster_location argument to Heapster ([#65176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65176), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))
* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Bug or Regression

- An inefficient lock in EndpointSlice controller metrics cache has been reworked. Network programming latency may be significantly reduced in certain scenarios, especially in clusters with a large number of Services. ([#107169](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107169), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- A new feature was enabled to improve the performance of the iptables mode of `kube-proxy` in large clusters. No action was required, however:
  

* kube-apiserver: a request body of a CREATE/UPDATE/PATCH/DELETE resource operation larger than 100 MB will return a 413 "request entity too large" error. ([#73805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73805), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))