- Added jitter factor to lease controller that better smears load on kube-apiserver over time. ([#101652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101652), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]
- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

 *       anything about how the property is tested. To find out, read the code.
 *   <li>These tests are "conformance tests", and do not attempt to test throughput, latency,
 *       scalability or other performance factors (see the separate "jtreg" tests for a set intended
 *       to check these for the most central aspects of functionality.) So, most tests use the

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client: v0.0.27 → v0.0.30

### Removed
_Nothing has changed._

 *       anything about how the property is tested. To find out, read the code.
 *   <li>These tests are "conformance tests", and do not attempt to test throughput, latency,
 *       scalability or other performance factors (see the separate "jtreg" tests for a set intended
 *       to check these for the most central aspects of functionality.) So, most tests use the

- Bump node-problem-detector version to v0.8.5 to fix OOM detection in with Linux kernels 5.1+ ([#96716](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96716), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Scalability and Testing]

- Add metric etcd_lease_object_counts for kube-apiserver to observe max objects attached to a single etcd lease. ([#97480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97480), [@lingsamuel](https://github.com/lingsamuel)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

### SIG Scalability

SIG Scalability has mostly focused on stability and deflaking our tests, investing into framework for writing scalability tests (ClusterLoader v2) with a goal to migrate all tests to it by the end of 2018 and on the work towards extending definition of Kubernetes scalability by providing more/better user-friendly SLIs/SLOs.

### SIG Scheduling

- Improve PVC Protection Controller's scalability by batch-processing PVCs by namespace with lazy live pod listing. ([#125372](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125372), [@hungnguyen243](https://github.com/hungnguyen243)) [SIG Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]

    - [CLI](#cli-1)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle)
    - [GCP](#gcp)
    - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation)
    - [Node](#node-1)
    - [OpenStack](#openstack-1)
    - [Scalability](#scalability)
    - [Storage](#storage-1)
    - [Windows](#windows-1)
    - [Autoscaling](#autoscaling)
    - [API-Machinery](#api-machinery-1)
    - [Network](#network-1)
    - [Azure](#azure-1)

- You can use this Builder function to create events Field Selector ([#101817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101817), [@cndoit18](https://github.com/cndoit18)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]
- `Scheduler` now registers event handlers dynamically. ([#101394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101394), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))