- The metric `storage_operation_errors_total` is not removed, but is marked deprecated, and the metric `storage_operation_status_count` is marked deprecated. In both cases the `storage_operation_duration_seconds` metric can be used to recover equivalent counts (using `status=fail-unknown` in the case of `storage_operations_errors_total`). ([#99045](https:...

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- The mount-utils mounter now provides an...

  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.ObjectMeta metadata = 1;

  // Range is string that identifies the range represented by 'data'.
  optional string range = 2;

  // Data is a bit array containing all allocated addresses in the previous segment.
  optional bytes data = 3;
}

* The public-address-override, address, and port flags have been removed and replaced by bind-address, insecure-bind-address, and insecure-port, respectively. They are marked as deprecated in [#36604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36604), which is more than a year ago.  ([#59018](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59018), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

- [`KT-56835`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56835) Light classes: Underlying fields for delegated properties should be marked as final and `@NotNull`
- [`KT-56840`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56840) Light Classes: Inline classes backed by Java primitives shouldn't be marked with `@NotNull`

- etcd version monitor metrics are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level. ([#83283](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83283), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))
- Change `pod_preemption_victims` metric from Gauge to Histogram. ([#83603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83603), [@Tabrizian](https://github.com/Tabrizian))
- Following metrics from kubelet are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level:

* When using IP aliases, use a secondary range rather than subnetwork to reserve cluster IPs. ([#51690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51690), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))
* IPAM controller unifies handling of node pod CIDR range allocation. ([#51374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51374), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))

- Fixes v1.17.0 regression in --service-cluster-ip-range handling with IPv4 ranges larger than 65536 IP addresses ([#86534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86534), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Network]

* When using IP aliases, use a secondary range rather than subnetwork to reserve cluster IPs. ([#51690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51690), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))
* IPAM controller unifies handling of node pod CIDR range allocation. ([#51374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51374), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))