- Added regions ap-northeast-3 and eu-west-3 to the list of well known AWS regions. ([#70252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70252), [@nckturner](https://github.com/nckturner))

*   Azure NSG rules can be consolidated to reduce the likelihood of hitting Azure resource limits (available only in regions where the Augmented Security Groups preview is available).  ([#55740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55740), [@itowlson](https://github.com/itowlson))

 - Newly provisioned PVs by EBS plugin will no longer use the deprecated "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" labels. It will use "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region" labels instead. ([#99130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99130), [@ayberk](https://github.com/ayberk)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Storage and Testing]

- PersistentVolume API objects which set NodeAffinities using beta Kubernetes labels for OS, architecture, zone, region, and instance type may now be modified to use the stable Kubernetes labels. ([#115391](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115391), [@haoruan](https://github.com/haoruan))

    * regions ("failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region") in favor of their GA equivalents:
    * "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region".
    * The beta labels "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" will be removed in v1.21

* Created k8s.gcr.io image repo alias to pull images from the closest regional repo. Replaces gcr.io/google_containers. ([#57824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57824), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- Azure nodes with availability zone will now have label `failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone=<region>-<zoneID>`. ([#66242](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66242), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) Courtesy of SIG Azure

* Fixes storage e2e test failures in GKE regional clusters. ([#61303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61303), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

* kubectl: fixes issue with `-o yaml` and `-o json` omitting kind and apiVersion when used with `--dry-run` ([#61808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61808), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Ensure reasons end up as comments in `kubectl edit`. ([#60990](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60990), [@bmcstdio](https://github.com/bmcstdio))

    Federation control system then creates and maintains a single
    global virtual IP to load balance incoming HTTP(S) traffic across
    some or all the registered clusters, across all regions. Google's
    GCE L7 LoadBalancer is the first supported implementation, and
	is available in this release.
	([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/federation/federated-ingress.md))