* A new controller for managing DNS records is introduced which can be optionally disabled to enable third party components to manage DNS records for federated services. ([#45034](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45034), [@shashidharatd](https://github.com/shashidharatd))

## New Features

- kubelet: When node lease feature is enabled, kubelet reports node status to api server only if there is some change or it didn't report over last report interval. ([#69753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69753), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

- **Apps**
  - [stable] When replica sets cannot create pods, they will now report detail via the API about the underlying reason ([kubernetes/features#120](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/120))

- github.com/google/cel-spec: [v0.6.0](https://github.com/google/cel-spec/tree/v0.6.0)
- github.com/jstemmer/go-junit-report: [v0.9.1](https://github.com/jstemmer/go-junit-report/tree/v0.9.1)
- github.com/nxadm/tail: [v1.4.4](https://github.com/nxadm/tail/tree/v1.4.4)
- github.com/onsi/ginkgo: [v1.14.0](https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo/tree/v1.14.0)

- The client label for apiserver_request_count and apiserver_request_total now no-opts and merely records an empty string. ([#87673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87673), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

- KMS: added validation for duplicate kms config name when auto reload is enabled. If you enabled automatic reload of encryption configuration with API server flag `--encryption-provider-config-automatic-reload`, ensure all the KMS provider names (v1 and v2) in the encryption configuration are unique. ([#113697](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113697), [@aramase](https:/...

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- Added a kubelet metric `container_aligned_compute_resources_count`  to report the count of containers getting aligned compute resources. ([#127155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127155), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]

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* kube-proxy restores the *filter table when running in ipvs mode. ([#68786](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68786), [@alexjx](https://github.com/alexjx))
* New kubeDNS image fixes an issue where SRV records were incorrectly being compressed. Added manifest file for multiple arch images. ([#68430](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68430), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))