#### **API Server**

* kube-apiserver: the default `--endpoint-reconciler-type` is now `lease`. The `master-count` endpoint reconciler type is deprecated and will be removed in 1.13. ([#63383](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63383), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Update fluentd-gcp addon to 1.28.1 ([#39706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39706), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))
* Provide kubernetes-controller-manager flags to control volume attach/detach reconciler sync.  The duration of the syncs can be controlled, and the syncs can be shut off as well.  ([#39551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39551), [@chrislovecnm](https://github.com/chrislovecnm))

* Don't evict static pods ([#39059](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39059), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* Provide kubernetes-controller-manager flags to control volume attach/detach reconciler sync.  The duration of the syncs can be controlled, and the syncs can be shut off as well.  ([#39551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39551), [@chrislovecnm](https://github.com/chrislovecnm))

- Kube-apiserver: the `--master-count` flag and `--endpoint-reconciler-type=master-count` reconciler are deprecated in favor of the lease reconciler ([#108062](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108062), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

    * and  DefaultStorageClass admission plugin can be used to preserve similar behavior of Kubernetes cluster,
    * see https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/persistent-volumes/#class-1 for details.
* Reduce verbosity of volume reconciler when attaching volumes ([#36900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36900), [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock))

- `kubeproxy_conntrack_reconciler_deleted_entries_total` metric can be used to track cumulative sum of conntrack flows cleared by reconciler. ([#130204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130204), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

- Updated CNI plugins to v1.7.1 ([#131602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131602), [@adrianmoisey](https://github.com/adrianmoisey)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Node and Testing]
- Updated `conntrack` reconciler to consider a Service’s target port during cleanup of stale flow entries. ([#130542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130542), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

- New staging repo has been created for the `EndpointSlice` reconciler. ([#118953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118953), [@mskrocki](https://github.com/mskrocki))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix endpoint reconciler not being able to delete the apiserver lease on shutdown ([#114153](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114153), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery]