* kubelet: resolved hang/timeout issues when running large numbers of pods with unique configmap/secret references ([#74755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Reduce memory utilization of admission webhook metrics by removing resource related labels. ([#69895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69895), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* Fix concurrent map access panic ([#65327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65327), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * Don't watch .mount cgroups to reduce number of inotify watches
    * Fix NVML initialization race condition
    * Fix brtfs disk metrics when using a subdirectory of a subvolume

* Flex drivers by default do not produce metrics. Flex plugins can enable metrics collection by setting  the capability 'supportsMetrics' to true. Make sure the file system can support fs stat to produce metrics in this case. ([#67508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67508), [@brahmaroutu](https://github.com/brahmaroutu))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Build: Bump kube-cross to v1.12.17-2 ([#90760](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90760), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release]
- Reduce event spam during a volume operation error. ([#89794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89794), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42)) [SIG Storage]


# v1.15.11

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.
    * Disable timestamp adjustment in logs to optimize performance.
    * Reduce logging agent buffer chunk limit to 512k to optimize performance.

- Reduce vSphere volume name to 63 characters ([#100404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100404), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]

- Reduced GCE log rotation check from 1 hour to every 5 minutes.  Rotation policy is unchanged (new day starts, log file size > 100MB). ([#72062](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72062), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

### Network

* We change the default attach_detach_controller sync period to 1 minute to reduce the query frequency through cloud provider to check whether volumes are attached or not.  ([#41363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41363), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

* New flag --endpoint-updates-batch-period in kube-controller-manager can be used to reduce number of endpoints updates generated by pod changes. ([#80509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80509), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- Reduce event spam during volume operation errors in Portworx in-tree driver ([#135192](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135192), [@gohilankit](https://github.com/gohilankit)) [SIG Storage]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)