- The deprecated flag `--lock-object-namespace` and `--lock-object-name` have been removed from kube-scheduler. Please use `--leader-elect-resource-namespace` and `--leader-elect-resource-name` or ComponentConfig instead to configure those parameters. ([#119130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119130), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Ephemeral Containers Graduate to Stable

* vSphere Cloud Provider supports VMs provisioned on vSphere v1.6.5 ([#59519](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59519), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))
* Allow node IPAM controller to configure IPAMFromCluster mode to use IP aliases instead of routes in GCP. ([#59688](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59688), [@jingax10](https://github.com/jingax10))

					return c.annotatePeerErr(peerName, configureReplication, err)
				}
			}
		}
		if len(missingB) > 0 {
			// configure replication from current cluster to other clusters
			err := c.PeerBucketConfigureReplHandler(ctx, bucket)
			if err != nil {
				return c.annotateErr(configureReplication, err)
			}
		}
		return nil
	}

- HostNetwork pods no longer depend on the PodIPs to be assigned to configure the defined hostAliases on the Pod ([#126460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126460), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]

- Enabled concurrent log rotation in kubelet. You can now configure the maximum number of concurrent rotations with the `containerLogMaxWorkers` setting, and adjust the monitoring interval with `containerLogMonitorInterval`. ([#114301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114301), [@harshanarayana](http...

* [IPVS] Allow for transparent kube-proxy restarts ([#75283](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75283), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))