## Changelog since v1.14.0

### Other notable changes

* GCE/Windows: disable stackdriver logging agent to prevent node startup failures ([#76099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76099), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

    * The apiserver also now takes an optional flag "--maximum-startup-sequence-duration". This allows you to explicitly define an upper bound on the apiserver startup sequences before healthz begins to fail. By keeping the kubelet liveness initial delay short, this can enable quick kubelet recovery as soon as we have a boot sequence which has not completed in our...

- Fixed vSphere cloud provider not to skip detach volumes from nodes at kube-controller-startup. ([#117243](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117243), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

		}
	}

	if firstTime {
		bootstrapTraceMsg(fmt.Sprintf("globalIAMSys.Load(): (duration: %s)", loadDuration))
		if globalIsDistErasure {
			logger.Info("IAM load(startup) finished. (duration: %s)", loadDuration)
		}
	}

	select {
	case <-sys.configLoaded:
	default:
		close(sys.configLoaded)
	}
	return nil
}

- Fixed vSphere cloud provider not to skip detach volumes from nodes at kube-controller-startup. ([#117243](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117243), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- `kubelet` now emits a metric for end-to-end pod startup latency, including image pull. ([#121041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121041), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))
- `kubelet` now exposes latency metrics of different stages of the node startup. ([#118568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118568), [@qiutongs](https://github.com/qiutongs))

resource cannot be listed or watched. Any objects in the unsynced resource type with owner references with `blockOwnerDeletion: true` will not be known to the garbage collector. Use of `blockOwnerDeletion` has always been best-effort and racy on startup and object creation. With this fix, it continues to be best-effort for resources that cannot be synced by the garbage collector controller. ([#125796](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125796), [@haorenfsa](https://github.com/haorenfsa))...

	)

Any package using cgo imports "runtime/cgo", which provides
initializations for these variables. It sets iscgo to true, _cgo_init
to a gcc-compiled function that can be called early during program
startup, and _cgo_thread_start to a gcc-compiled function that can be
used to create a new thread, in place of the runtime's usual direct
system calls.

Internal and External Linking

- Fixed `vSphere` cloud provider not to skip detach volumes from nodes at `kube-controller-startup`. ([#117243](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117243), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

    * In order to safely upgrade an existing Kubernetes cluster without interruption of volume attach/detach logic: