- Remove `NodeLease` feature gate that was graduated and locked to stable in 1.17 release. ([#1052...

- Fix a bug in kube-proxy that caused it to crash when using load balancers with a different IP family ([#87117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87117), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network]

  
  ### Exoscale
  - Add support for Exoscale
  
  ### GCE
  - Decrease the number of GCE Read Requests made while deleting nodes
  - Base pricing of custom instances on their instance family type
  - Add pricing information for missing machine types
  - Add pricing information for different GPU types
  - Ignore the new `topology.gke.io/zone` label when comparing groups

- `apiserver`, if configured to reconcile the `kubernetes.default` service endpoints, checks if the configured Service IP range matches the apiserver public address IP family, and fails to start if not. ([#106721](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106721), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- The kubeconfig is now exposed in `the kube-scheduler` framework handle. Out-of-tree plugins can leverage that to build CRD informers easily. ([#100644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100644), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- `kube-proxy` now reports its health more accurately in dual-stack clusters when there are problems with only one IP family. ([#118146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118146), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

  - [beta] Server-side garbage collection is enabled by default. See [user-guide](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/garbage-collection/)
- **Apps**
  - [alpha] Introducing 'ScheduledJobs', which allow running time based Jobs, namely once at a specified time or repeatedly at specified point in time. ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/scheduled-jobs/)) ([kubernetes/features#19](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/19))
- **Auth**

- Adds new flag, namely `custom`, in kubectl debug to let users customize pre-defined profiles. ([#120346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120346), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI]

* kubeadm: Make kube-proxy tolerate the external cloud provider taint so that an external cloud provider can be easily used on top of kubeadm ([#49017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49017), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))