* A cluster using the AWS cloud provider will need to label existing nodes and resources with a ClusterID or the kube-controller-manager will not start.  To run without a ClusterID pass --allow-untagged-cloud=true to the kube-controller-manager on startup. ([#49215](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49215), [@rrati](https://github.com/rrati))

- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112398), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kube-apiserver: `gzip` compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112299), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))