- Ensure Job status updates are batched by 1s. This fixes an unlikely scenario when a sequence of immediately 
  completing pods could trigger a sequence of non-batched Job status updates. ([#118470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118470), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

* API machinery's httpstream/spdy calls now support CIDR notation for NO_PROXY ([#54413](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54413), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
* fix a bug where disk pressure could trigger prematurely when using overlay2 ([#53684](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53684), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- Fixed a bug where a change in the `appProtocol` for a Service did not trigger a load balancer update. ([#112785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112785), [@MartinForReal](https://github.com/MartinForReal)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

- Added `job_pods_creation_total` metrics for tracking Pods created by the Job controller labeled by events which triggered the Pod creation. ([#121481](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121481), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele))
- Added `kubectl node drain` helper callbacks `OnPodDeletionOrEvictionStarted`