- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are now more effective using networking resources:
  conntrack entries, sockets. This is achieved by reducing the `TIME-WAIT` state
  of the connection to 1 second, instead of the defaults 60 seconds. This allows
  kubelet to free the socket, and free conntrack entry and ephemeral port associated. ([#115143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115143), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

* Support new NODE_OS_DISTRIBUTION 'custom' on GCE ([#61235](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61235), [@yguo0905](https://github.com/yguo0905))
* Fix mounting of UNIX sockets(and other special files) in subpaths ([#61480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61480), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Add --permit-address-sharing flag to `kube-apiserver` to listen with `SO_REUSEADDR`. While allowing to listen on wildcard IPs like 0.0.0.0 and specific IPs in parallel, it avoids waiting for the kernel to release socket in `TIME_WAIT` state, and hence, considerably reducing `kube-apiserver` restart times under certain conditions. ([#93861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93861), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Fix mounting of UNIX sockets(and other special files) in subpaths ([#61480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61480), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

## Known Issues

- If kubelet plugin registration for a driver fails, kubelet will not retry. The driver must delete and recreate the driver registration socket in order to force kubelet to attempt registration again. Restarting only the driver container may not be sufficient to trigger recreation of the socket, instead a pod restart may be required. ([#71487](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/71487))

* Fixed racy panics when using fake watches with ObjectTracker ([#61195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61195), [@grantr](https://github.com/grantr))
* Fixed mounting of UNIX sockets(and other special files) in subpaths ([#61480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61480), [@gnufscied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- The  command line option  --cri-socket-path of the kubeadm subcommand "kubeadm config images pull" has been renamed to --cri-socket to be consistent with the rest of kubeadm subcommands.

- Kubeadm no longer defaults or validates the component configs of the kubelet or kube-proxy ([#79223](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79223), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))
- Kubeadm: remove the deprecated `--cri-socket` flag for `kubeadm upgrade apply`. The flag has been deprecated since v1.14. ([#85044](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85044), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

### Serverside Apply - Beta 2

    * - Don't generate empty record for externalName service.
    * - Add validation for upstreamNameserver port.
    * - Update go version to 1.9.3.
* Fix mounting of UNIX sockets(and other special files) in subpaths ([#61480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61480), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))