### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

* fix apps DeploymentSpec conversion issue ([#49719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49719), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
* fluentd-gcp addon: Fix a bug in the event-exporter, when repeated events were not sent to Stackdriver. ([#50511](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50511), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

- Kube-proxy: Traffic from the cluster directed to ExternalIPs is always sent directly to the Service. ([#96296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96296), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- AdmissionReview objects sent for the creation of Namespace API objects now populate the `namespace` attribute consistently (previously the `namespace` attribute was empty for Namespace creation via POST requests, and populated for Namespace creation via server-side-apply PATCH...

- Set metrics-server's metric-resolution to 15s. ([#117121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117121), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]
- SubjectAccessReview requests sent to webhook authorizers now default `spec.resourceAttributes.version` to `*` if unset. ([#116937](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116937), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan)) [SIG Apps and Auth]

* Fixes an issue with missing apiVersion/kind in object data sent to admission webhooks ([#74448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74448), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

        <match value="Relay-Version:" type="stringignorecase" offset="0"/>
        <match value="Return-Path:" type="stringignorecase" offset="0"/>
        <match value="Sent:" type="string" offset="0"/>
        <match value="Status:" type="string" offset="0"/>
        <match value="User-Agent:" type="string" offset="0"/>
        <match value="X-Mailer:" type="string" offset="0"/>

- Fixed a kubelet issue that could result in invalid pod status updates to be sent to the api-server where pods would be reported in a terminal phase but also report a ready condition of true in some cases. ([#110480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110480), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage)) [SIG Node and...

- The audit event sourceIPs list will now always end with the IP that sent the request directly to the API server. ([#87167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87167), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

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