- Fix etcd_object_counts metric reported by kube-apiserver ([#94819](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94819), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Fix network_programming_latency metric reporting for Endpoints/EndpointSlice deletions, where we don't have correct timestamp ([#95363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95363), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Network and Scalability]

### Bug or Regression

- Disable aufs module for gce clusters ([#103831](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103831), [@lizhuqi](https://github.com/lizhuqi)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix kube-apiserver metric reporting for the deprecated watch path of /api/<version>/watch/... ([#104191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104191), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

    * This fixed environments where CPU and Memory Accounting were not enabled on the unit that launched the kubelet or docker from reporting the root cgroup when monitoring usage stats for those components.
* New default horizontalpodautoscaler/v1 generator for kubectl autoscale. ([#26775](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26775), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))

- Evicted and other terminated Pods will no longer revert to the `Running` phase. ([#105462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105462), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))
- Fix `kube-apiserver` metric reporting for the deprecated watch path of `/api/<version>/watch/...`. ([#104161](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104161), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

  2. if there's a transient error happened during "provisioning/deletion", i.e., a volume is still in-use while a deleteVolume has been called, original `storage_operation_duration_seconds` will NOT wait until a volume has been finally deleted before reporting an inaccurate latency metric. The newly implemented metric...

### Bug or Regression

- Fix kube-apiserver metric reporting for the deprecated watch path of /api/<version>/watch/... ([#104188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104188), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

* The kube-apiserver [basic audit log](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/audit/) can be enabled in GCE by exporting the environment variable `ENABLE_APISERVER_BASIC_AUDIT=true` before running `cluster/kube-up.sh`. This will log to `/var/log/kube-apiserver-audit.log` and use the same `logrotate` settings as `/var/log/kube-apiserver.log`. ([#41211](https://gith...

* Fix inconsistent Prometheus cAdvisor metrics ([#51473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51473), [@bboreham](https://github.com/bboreham))
* Fixed an issue reporting lack of progress for a deployment prematurely ([#52178](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52178), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))

* [Kubelet] Check if kubelet is running as uid 0 ([#30466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30466), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))
* Fix third party APIResource reporting ([#29724](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29724), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

  ([#34259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34259), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

#### Bug fixes
* Add image cache to fix the issue where kubelet hands when reporting the node
  status. ([#38375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38375),
  [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
* Fix logic error in graceful deletion that caused pods not being able to