- Prevent watch cache starvation by moving its watch to separate RPC and add a SeparateCacheWatchRPC feature flag to disable this behavior ([#123694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123694), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy)) [SIG API Machinery]

  using ethtool to disable checksum offload on your primary network interface, you should
  now be able to stop doing that. ([#92035](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92035), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network and Node]

### API Change

- The `metadata.clusterName` field is completely removed. This should not have any user-visible impact. ([#109602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109602), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))

### Deprecation warnings

SIG API Machinery implemented [warnings when using deprecated APIs](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/deprecation-policy/#rest-resources-aka-api-objects)
that are visible to `kubectl` users and API consumers, and metrics visible to cluster administrators.
Requests to a deprecated API are returned with a warning containing a target removal release and any replacement API.

- The new flag `--chunk-size=SIZE` has been added to `kubectl describe`. This flag may be used to alter the number of items or disable this feature when `0` is passed. ([#101171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101171), [@KnVer...

- Fixed an issue where the `configmap`, `secret`, `projected`, and `downwardAPI` volume types didn't create user-visible files after a kubelet restart. This fix ensures data persistence and accessibility after restarts. ([#122807](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122807), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

for resizing existing persistent volumes.

### NonPreemptingPriority to Stable

This feature adds [a new option to PriorityClasses](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/902),
which can enable or disable pod preemption.

### Storage Plugin Migration

There is work under way to [migrate the internals of in-tree storage plugins](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/625) to call out to CSI Plugins,

## Dependencies

### Added

    * - gcr.io/google-containers/dnsmasq-metrics-amd64
    * - gcr.io/google-containers/etcd-empty-dir-cleanup
    * - gcr.io/google-containers/kube-addon-manager
    * - gcr.io/google-containers/kube-dnsmasq-amd64
* - Disable thin_ls due to excessive iops ([#43113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43113), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * - Ignore .mount cgroups, fixing dissappearing stats
    * - Fix wc goroutine leak