* Fixes an issue where the resourceVersion of an object in a DELETE watch event was not the resourceVersion of the delete itself, but of the last update to the object. This could disrupt the ability of clients clients to re-establish watches properly. ([#58547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

[https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213) sig-cluster-lifecycle has decided to phase out the cluster/ directory over the next couple of releases in favor of deployment automations maintained outside of the core repo and outside of kubernetes orgs. ([@kubernetes/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/teams/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc))

    * Remove deprecated ContainerVM support from GCE kube-up....

  - Clone `kubernetes/kubernetes` in `update-vendor.sh` shallowly, instead of fetching all revisions
  - Speed up binpacking by reducing the number of PreFilter calls (call once per pod instead of #pods*#nodes times)
  - Speed up finding unneeded nodes by 5x+ in very large clusters by reducing the number of PreFilter calls
  - Expose `--max-nodes-total` as a metric

- Enabled usage of `kube-proxy`, `kube-scheduler` and `kubelet` HTTP APIs for changing the logging
   verbosity at runtime for JSON output. ([#114609](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114609), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

- Fix load balancer status without VIP.
- Fix filtering of server status.
- Fix resizing PVC of Cinder volume.
- Disable load balancer configuration if it is not defined in cloud config.
- Add support for node shutdown taint.

The external provider includes all of the above with the additional fixes and features:
- Fix bug to prevent allocation of existing floating IP.
- Fix Cinder authentication bug when OS_DOMAIN_NAME not specified.

* Fixes an issue where the resourceVersion of an object in a DELETE watch event was not the resourceVersion of the delete itself, but of the last update to the object. This could disrupt the ability of clients clients to re-establish watches properly. ([#58547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  
  - `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_failures_total`: Total number of failed automatic reloads of encryption configuration.
  - `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_success_total`: Total number of successful automatic reloads of encryption configuration.

* API request throttling (due to a high rate of requests) is now reported in the kubelet (and other component) logs by default.  The messages are of the form ([#80649](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80649), [@RobertKrawitz](https://github.com/RobertKrawitz))
    * Throttling request took 1.50705208s, request: GET:\<URL\>

- Limit the body length of exec readiness/liveness probes. remote CRIs and Docker shim read a max of 16MB output of which the exec probe itself inspects 10kb. ([#82514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82514), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

In addition, users can now create multiple versions of CustomResourceDefinitions, but without any kind of automatic conversion, and CustomResourceDefinitions now allow specification of additional columns for `kubectl get` output via the `spec.additionalPrinterColumns` field.