- Kubelet: improve the performance when waiting for a synchronization of the node list with the kube-apiserver ([#99336](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99336), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Node]

- Do not expand volume on the node, if controller expansion is finished ([#131987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131987), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]
- Do not log error event when waiting for expansion on the kubelet ([#132098](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132098), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]

* Fix a race condition in which kubeadm only waits for the kubelets kubeconfig file when it has performed the TLS bootstrap, but wasn't waiting for certificates to be present in the filesystem ([#72030](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72030), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))

* fluentd will tolerate all NoExecute Taints when run in gcp configuration. ([#45715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45715), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* Fix [Deployments with Recreate strategy not waiting for Pod termination](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/27362). ([#45639](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45639), [@ChipmunkV](https://github.com/ChipmunkV))

- Kubectl create service now respects namespace flag ([#101005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101005), [@zxh326](https://github.com/zxh326)) [SIG CLI]
- Kubelet: improve the performance when waiting for a synchronization of the node list with the kube-apiserver ([#99336](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99336), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Node]