- Removed the generally available feature gate `ProxyTerminatingEndpoints`. ([#122134](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122134), [@ty-dc](https://github.com/ty-dc))

- the IP allocator in v1.17.0 can return errors such as `the cluster IP <ip> for service <service-name> is not within the service CIDR <cidr>; please recreate` in the logs of the kube-apiserver. The cause is incorrect CIDR calculations if the service CIDR (`--serv...

* kubectl: improves compatibility with older servers when creating/updating API objects ([#61949](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61949), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Bound cloud allocator to 10 retries with 100 ms delay between retries. ([#61375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61375), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

### Other notable changes

* Backport of the IPAM allocator enhancements to 1.8 branch. ([#62041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62041), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

    * - Don't generate empty record for externalName service.
    * - Add validation for upstreamNameserver port.
    * - Update go version to 1.9.3.
* Backport Cloud CIDR allocator fixes to 1.9 ([#61797](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61797), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

- Dynamic Resource Allocator (DRA): Enhanced validation for the ResourceClaimParametersReference and ResourceClassParametersReference with the following rules:
  
  1. `apiGroup`: If set, it must be a valid DNS subdomain (e.g. 'example.com').

- Reduce event spam during a volume operation error. ([#89794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89794), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42)) [SIG Storage]
- Refactor the local nodeipam range allocator and instrument the cidrset used to store the allocated CIDRs with the following metrics:
  "cidrset_cidrs_allocations_total",
  "cidrset_cidrs_releases_total",
  "cidrset_usage_cidrs",

        previous gradient implementation.
    *   Added a new session config setting `internal_fragmentation_fraction`,
        which controls when the BFC Allocator needs to split an oversized chunk
        to satisfy an allocation request.
    *   Added `tf.get_current_name_scope()` which returns the current full name
        scope string that will be prepended to op names.