- 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,...

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where file copy(backup) could not be executed correctly on Windows platform during upgrade ([#117861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117861), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

  * OOM parser uses kmsg
  * Add hugepages support
  * Add CRI-O support

* Sharing a PID namespace between containers in a pod is disabled by default in version 1.8. To enable for a node, use the `--docker-disable-shared-pid=false` kubelet flag. Be aware that PID namespace sharing requires Docker version greater than or equal to 1.13.1.

* Fix issues related to the eviction manager.

  with the number of existing entries in the internal cache
  
  - `rest_client_transport_create_calls_total` is a counter
  that increments each time a new transport is created, storing
  the result of the operation needed to generate it: hit, miss
  or uncacheable. ([#117295](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117295), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

  
  kubelet also ignores an error during opening `/dev/kmsg`.
  This feature gate also allows kube-proxy to ignore an error during setting `RLIMIT_NOFILE`.
  

- Introduces a new metric: `admission_webhook_request_total` with the following labels: name (string) - the webhook name, type (string) - the admission type, operation (string) - the requested verb, code (int) - the HTTP status code, rejected (bool) - whether the request was rejected, namespace (string) - the namespace of the requested resource. ([#103162](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103162), [@rmoriar1](https://github.com/rmoriar1))...

- Improve rounding of PodTopologySpread scores to offer better scoring when spreading a low number of pods. ([#107384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107384), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.
   ([#122435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122435), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska))
- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.
   ([#123384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123384), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska))

- Empty values are no longer assigned to undefined resources (CPU or memory) when storing the resources allocated to the pod in checkpoint. ([#117615](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117615), [@aheng-ch](https://github.com/aheng-ch))
- Fixed CEL estimated cost of `replace()` to handle a zero length replacement string correctly.