- `Scheduler` now registers event handlers dynamically. ([#101394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101394), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
- `kubectl`: Enable using protocol buffers to request Metrics API. ([#102039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102039), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

* Fix a scheduler panic due to internal cache inconsistency ([#71063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71063), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Bug or Regression

- Adds node event handlers to dual stack kube-proxy implementation to fix Topology Aware Hints. ([#101054](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101054), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Network]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix missing delete events on informer re-lists to ensure all delete events are correctly emitted and using the latest known object state, so that all event handlers and stores always reflect the actual apiserver state as best as possible ([#115901](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115901), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix missing delete events on informer re-lists to ensure all delete events are correctly emitted and using the latest known object state, so that all event handlers and stores always reflect the actual apiserver state as best as possible ([#115900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115900), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge)) [SIG API Machinery]

    * Introduce a RuntimeClass v1beta1 API. This new beta API renames `runtimeHandler` to `handler`, makes it a required field, and cuts out the spec (handler is a top-level field).

- The 404 request handler for the GCE Ingress load balancer now exports prometheus metrics, including:

  - `http_404_request_total` (the number of 404 requests handled)
  - `http_404_request_duration_ms` (the amount of time the server took to respond in ms)

- Sync node status during kubelet node shutdown.
  Adds an pod admission handler that rejects new pods when the node is in progress of shutting down. ([#98005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98005), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

* Default resourceGroup should be used when the value of annotation azure-load-balancer-resource-group is an empty string. ([#79514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79514), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* The CRD handler now properly re-creates stale CR storage to reflect CRD update. ([#79114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79114), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

* GCE: Bump GLBC version to [0.9.7](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/releases/tag/0.9.7). ([#53625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53625), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* kubeadm 1.8 now properly handles upgrades from to 1.7.x to newer release in 1.7 branch ([#53338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53338), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))