- Reduce default NodeStatusReportFrequency to 5 minutes. With this change, periodic node status updates will be send every 5m if node status doesn't change (otherwise they are still send with 10s).

* 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))
* Reduce memory utilization of admission webhook metrics by removing resource related labels. ([#69895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69895), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- Kubectl: Fixes bug by aggregating 'apply' errors instead of failing after first error ([#89607](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89607), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3)) [SIG CLI and Testing]
- Reduce event spam during a volume operation error. ([#89796](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89796), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42)) [SIG Storage]


# v1.18.0

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

* allow windows mount path ([#51240](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51240), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Reduce log noise produced by prometheus-to-sd, by bumping it to version 0.2.2. ([#54635](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54635), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

- Reduce delay when processing jobs after a transient API error ([#118759](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118759), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

* Fix concurrent map access panic ([#65327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65327), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * Don't watch .mount cgroups to reduce number of inotify watches
    * Fix NVML initialization race condition
    * Fix brtfs disk metrics when using a subdirectory of a subvolume

    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.
    * Disable timestamp adjustment in logs to optimize performance.
    * Reduce logging agent buffer chunk limit to 512k to optimize performance.

- Add flag --lease-reuse-duration-seconds for kube-apiserver to config etcd lease reuse duration. ([#97009](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97009), [@lingsamuel](https://github.com/lingsamuel)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]

- Scheduler volumebinding: leveraged `PreFilterResult` to reduce down to only
  eligible node(s) for pod with bound claim(s) to local `PersistentVolume(s)` ([#109877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109877), [@yibozhuang](https://github.com/yibozhuang))

    * 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))