- Promote PodHostIPs condition to beta. ([#120257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120257), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]
- Promote PodHostIPs condition to beta. ([#121477](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121477), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Network and Testing]

* Start synchronizing pods after network is ready.  ([#68752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68752), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))
* kubectl has gained new --profile and --profile-output options to output go profiles ([#68681](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68681), [@dlespiau](https://github.com/dlespiau))

- Promote NodeLease feature to GA.

  - Kube-scheduler can run more than one scheduling profile. Given a pod, the profile is selected by using its `.spec.schedulerName`. ([#88285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88285), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps, Scheduling and Testing]

- Added new config option `delayCacheUntilActive` to `KubeSchedulerConfiguration` that can provide a tradeoff between memory efficiency and scheduling speed when their leadership is updated in `kube-scheduler` ([#115754](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115754), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei)) [SIG API Machinery and Scheduling]...

### Additional Notable Feature Updates

- [Topology Manager](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/693), a new Kubelet component, aims to co-ordinate resource assignment decisions to provide optimized resource allocations.
- [IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dual-stack) enables the allocation of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to Pods and Services.

Structured logging reached its Beta milestone. Most log messages from kubelet and kube-scheduler have been converted. Users are encouraged to try out JSON output or parsing of the structured text format and provide feedback on possible solutions for the open issues, such as handling of multi-line strings in log values.

### Simplified Multi-point plugin configuration for scheduler

- Promote CronJob's TimeZone support to beta ([#111435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111435), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Testing]

The cri-tools project, which aims to provide consistent tooling for operators to debug and introspect their nodes in production independent of their chosen container runtime, graduated to GA.

* fix azure pv crash due to volumeSource.ReadOnly value nil ([#54607](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54607), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* GCE: provide an option to disable docker's live-restore on COS/ubuntu ([#55260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55260), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))