### Bug or Regression

- Client-go: resolves an issue with informers falling back to full list requests when timeouts are encountered, rather than re-establishing a watch. ([#89977](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89977), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Fix: Mount point may become local without calling NodePublishVolume after node rebooting. ([#119923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119923), [@cvvz](https://github.com/cvvz)) [SIG Node and Storage]

* Add --request-timeout to kube-apiserver to make global request timeout configurable. ([#51415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51415), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))
* Fix for Nodes in vSphere lacking an InternalIP. ([#48760](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48760)) ([#49202](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49202), [@cbonte](https://github.com/cbonte))

and suitably configured ext4fs filesystems) to monitor storage consumption for ephemeral storage.  This method of monitoring consumption, which is currently available only for `emptyDir` volumes, is faster and more accurate than the old method of walking the filesystem tree. Note that it does not enforce limits, it only monitors consumption. To utilize this functionality, set the feature gate `LocalStorageCapacityIsolationFSQuotaMonitoring=true`. For ext4fs filesystems, create the filesystem with...

* kubectl cp now safely allows unpacking of symlinks that may point outside the destination directory ([#82384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82384), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
* Limit use of tags when calling EC2 API to prevent API throttling for very large clusters ([#76749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76749), [@mcrute](https://github.com/mcrute))

  Jobs tracked with finalizers have the annotation batch.kubernetes.io/job-tracking.
  If the annotation is present and the user attempts to remove it, the control plane adds it back.
  The annotation `batch.kubernetes.io/job-tracking` is now deprecated.

- Fix an issue where kubectl apply could panic when imported as a library ([#122559](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122559), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree)) [SIG CLI]
- Fix: Mount point may become local without calling NodePublishVolume after node rebooting. ([#119923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119923), [@cvvz](https://github.com/cvvz)) [SIG Node and Storage]

* Automated cherry pick of [#49079](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49079) upstream release 1.7 ([#49254](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49254), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixed GlusterFS volumes taking too long to time out ([#48709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48709), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))