* Reduce time needed to attach Azure disks ([#40066](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40066), [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock))
* Fixes request header authenticator by presenting the request header client CA so that the front proxy will authenticate using its client certificate. ([#40301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40301), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- Apiserver add a new flag --goaway-chance which is the fraction of requests that will be closed gracefully(GOAWAY) to prevent HTTP/2 clients from getting stuck on a single apiserver. 
  After the connection closed(received GOAWAY), the client's other in-flight requests won't be affected, and the client will reconnect. 
  The flag min value is 0 (off), max is .02 (1/50 requests); .001 (1/1000) is a recommended starting point.

- Added ListMeta.RemainingItemCount. When responding to a LIST request, if the server has more data available, and if the request does not contain label selectors or field selectors, the server sets the ListOptions.RemainingItemCount to the number of remaining objects. ([#75993](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75993), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

* Limit the number of names per image reported in the node status ([#32914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32914), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* Fixes in HPA: consider only running pods; proper denominator in avg request calculations. ([#33735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33735), [@jszczepkowski](https://github.com/jszczepkowski))

- When the kubelet fails to assign CPUs to a Pod because there less available CPUs than the Pod requests, the error message changed from
  `not enough cpus available to satisfy request` to `not enough cpus available to satisfy request: <num_requested> requested, only <num_available> available`. ([#121059](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121059), [@matte21](https://github.com/matte21))

## Changelog since v1.6.9

### Other notable changes

* Add --request-timeout to kube-apiserver to make global request timeout configurable. ([#51415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51415), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

	    * The new metrics are:

	    * cloudprovider_gce_api_request_duration_seconds{request, region, zone}

	    * cloudprovider_gce_api_request_errors{request, region, zone}

	    * request is the specific function that is used.

	    * region is the target region (Will be "<n/a>" if not applicable)

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- Deprecated the `apiserver_request_slo_duration_seconds` metric for v1.27 in favor of `apiserver_request_sli_duration_seconds` for naming consistency purposes with other SLI-specific metrics and to avoid any confusion between SLOs and SLIs. ([#112679](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112679), [@dgrison...

- Kubeadm: make sure that a variety of API server requests are retried during "init", "join", "upgrade", "reset" workflows. Prior to this change some API server requests, such as, creating or updating ConfigMaps were "one-shot"...