- [KCCM - service controller]: enabled connection draining for terminating pods upon node downscale by the cluster autoscaler. This is done by not reacting to the taint used by the cluster autoscaler to indicate that the node is going away soon, thus keeping the node referenced by the load balancer until the VM has been completely deleted. ([#115204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115204),...

- Kube-controller-manager: the `horizontal-pod-autoscaler-upscale-delay` and `horizontal-pod-autoscaler-downscale-delay` flags have been removed (deprecated and non-functional since v1.12). ([#124948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124948), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Autoscaling]...

- Cluster Autoscaler version bump to v1.20.0 ([#97011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97011), [@towca](https://github.com/towca))

- Updated Cluster Autosaler to version `1.22.0`. Release notes: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.22.0. ([#104293](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104293), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

- Kube-controller-manager: the `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag and Heapster support in the horizontal pod autoscaler, deprecated since 1.12, is removed. ([#90368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90368), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

  
  ### IONOS
  - Add support for IONOS
  
  ### Kubemark
  - Skip non-kubemark nodes while computing node information for node groups.
  
  ### Magnum
  - Add Magnum support in the Cluster Autoscaler helm chart
  
  ### Packet
  - Allow empty nodepools
  - Add support for multiple nodepools
  - Add pricing support
  
  ## Image

- Restartable init containers resource in pod autoscaler are now calculated. ([#120001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120001), [@qingwave](https://github.com/qingwave))

- Enabled `kube-controller-manager` to support '--concurrent-horizontal-pod-autoscaler-syncs' flag to set the number of horizontal pod autoscaler controller workers. ([#108501](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108501), [@zroubalik](https://github.com/zroubalik))

- Update Cluster Autoscaler to 1.18.0; changelog: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.18.0 ([#89095](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89095), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk)) [SIG Autoscaling and Cluster Lifecycle]

replicaCount | [replica count](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/deployment/)
hpaSpec | [HorizontalPodAutoscaler](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/)
podDisruptionBudget | [PodDisruptionBudget](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/disruptions/#how-disruption-budgets-work)