- kubelet now exports an `kubelet_evictions` metric that counts the number of pod evictions carried out by the kubelet to reclaim resources ([#81377](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81377), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))

### Removed metrics

  
  Multi vCenter support is deprecated as of v1.21. If you have a Kubernetes cluster spanning across multiple vCenter servers, please consider moving all k8s nodes to a single vCenter Server. vSphere CSI Driver does not support Kubernetes deployment spanning across multiple vCenter servers.
  

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes CSI volume attachment scaling issue by using informers. ([#91307](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91307), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]

- Updated creation of `LoadBalancer` services, for there to be fewer AWS security group rules in most cases. ([#112267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112267), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))
- Updated the system-validators library to v1.8.0 ([#112026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112026), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

      * If you use the very rarely-used function `tf.keras.mixed_precision.experimental.get_layer_policy`:...

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes CSI volume attachment scaling issue by using informers. ([#91307](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91307), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]

  - Include taints by condition when determining if a node is unready/still starting
  - Fix `update-vendor.sh` to work on OSX and zsh
  - Add best-effort eviction for DaemonSet pods while scaling down non-empty nodes
  - Add build support for ARM64
  
  ### AliCloud
  - Add missing daemonsets and replicasets to ALI example cluster role
  
  ### Apache CloudStack

- Added CEL expressions to `v1alpha1 AuthenticationConfiguration`. ([#121078](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121078), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))
- Added Windows support for InPlace Pod Vertical Scaling feature. ([#112599](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112599), [@fabi200123](https://github.com/fabi200123)) [SIG Autoscaling, Node, Scalability, Scheduling and Windows]

### Workloads that saturate nodes with pods may see pods that fail due to node admission

* Metrics were added to network plugin to report latency of CNI operations ([#53446](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53446), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))
* GCE: Fix issue deleting internal load balancers when the firewall resource may not exist. ([#53450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53450), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))