* kube-apiserver now drops unneeded path information if an older version of Windows kubectl sends it. ([#44585](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44585), [@mml](https://github.com/mml))
* Fix for kube-proxy healthcheck handling an update that simultaneously removes one port and adds another. ([#44365](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44365), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

- Fixes calculating the requeue time in the cronjob controller, which results in properly handling failed/stuck jobs ([#121327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121327), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps]

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// See:
// http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingMetadata.html
//
// You should avoid the following characters in a key name because of
// significant special handling for consistency across all
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// Rejects strings with following characters.
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        `SerializationContext` argument to enable overriding the default policy
        for the handling external state during iterator checkpointing. This is
        not a backwards compatible change and all subclasses of `IteratorBase`
        *need to be updated* accordingly.
*   `tf.keras`
    *   Add a new `BackupAndRestore` callback for handling distributed training
        failures & restarts. Please take a look at this

## Changes since v1.2.1

### Other notable changes

* Trusty: Update heapster manifest handling code ([#23434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23434), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))

   * in which case the signal is a no-op, and the bigger-picture signal is lost unless interrupted
   * threads take special action by participating in the signal-passing game.
   */

  /*
   * Timeout handling is intricate, especially given our ambitious goals:
   * - Avoid underflow and overflow of timeout values when specified timeouts are close to
   *   Long.MIN_VALUE or Long.MAX_VALUE.

- Fixed a bug in kubelet that will saturate CPU utilization after containerd got restarted. ([#97174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97174), [@hanlins](https://github.com/hanlins)) [SIG Node]

## Changelog since v1.16.10

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Resolve regression in metadata.managedFields handling in update/patch requests submitted by older API clients ([#91748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91748), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

### Feature

- Fixed a bug in kubelet that will saturate CPU utilization after containerd got restarted. ([#97176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97176), [@hanlins](https://github.com/hanlins)) [SIG Node]

- The `ServiceLBNodePortControl` graduates to Beta and is enabled by default. ([#100412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100412), [@hanlins](https://github.com/hanlins))
- The `SetHostnameAsFQDN` graduates to GA and thus will be unconditionally disabled. ([#101294](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101294), [@javidiaz](https://github.com/javidiaz))