- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]
- Update kube-apiserver's priority & fairness work estimator such that 'max seats' is MIN(0.15 x nominalCL, nominalCL / handSize)
  

## Changelog since v1.18.18

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 

- Priority and Fairness feature is now `stable`, the feature gate will be removed in `v1.31`. ([#121638](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121638), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Made legacy watch calls (`ResourceVersion` = 0 or unset) that generate init-events weigh higher in `API Priority and Fairness (APF)` seat usage. Properly accounting for their cost protects the API server from CPU overload. Users might see increased throttling of such calls as a result. ([#134601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134601), [@shyamjvs](https:...

## Changelog since v1.19.10

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 

- API Priority and Fairness feature was promoted to GA in 1.29, the corresponding 

  private final AtomicReference<Throwable> threadFailure = new AtomicReference<>(null);

  /**
   * Records an exception so that it can be rethrown later in the test harness thread, triggering a
   * test case failure. Only the first failure is recorded; subsequent calls to this method from
   * within the same test have no effect.
   */
  public void threadRecordFailure(Throwable t) {

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 

### Scheduling

- Improved fairness of the scheduling queue by placing pods which are attempted recently behind other pods with the same priority. ([#73700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73700), [@denkensk](https://github.com/denkensk))

In-tree cloud provider bug fixes and improvements included:
- Adding initial Zones support to the provider using vSphere Tags
- Improving the testing harness for the cloud provider by introducing vcsim for automated testing
- Fixing a bug that was preventing updates from 1.10 to 1.11