### Other notable changes

* federation: fix dns provider initialization issues ([#27252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27252), [@mfanjie](https://github.com/mfanjie))

 - Base-images: Update to kube-cross:v1.13.9-5 ([#90964](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90964), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release and Testing]
 - CSINode initialization does not crash kubelet on startup when APIServer is not reachable or kubelet has not the right credentials yet. ([#89589](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89589), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]

	z.poolMeta.dontSave = true

	bootstrapTrace("newSharedLock", func() {
		globalLeaderLock = newSharedLock(GlobalContext, z, "leader.lock")
	})

	// Start self healing after the object initialization
	// so various tasks will be useful
	bootstrapTrace("initAutoHeal", func() {
		initAutoHeal(GlobalContext, z)
	})

	// initialize the object layer.
	defer setObjectLayer(z)

- Fix race condition in kube-proxy initialization that could blackhole UDP traffic to service VIP. ([#126688](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126688), [@wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly)) [SIG Network]

* Prevent kubelet from getting wedged if initialization of modules returns an error. ([#59020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59020), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

* Cluster Autoscaler 1.0.4 ([#59271](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59271), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* Prevent kubelet from getting wedged if initialization of modules returns an error. ([#59020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59020), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

* Fix concurrent map access panic ([#65327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65327), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * Don't watch .mount cgroups to reduce number of inotify watches
    * Fix NVML initialization race condition
    * Fix brtfs disk metrics when using a subdirectory of a subvolume

- Make / build: fix docker IP address detection ([#135576](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135576), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release and Testing]

* Fix kubelet panics when RuntimeClass is enabled. ([#68521](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68521), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* cAdvisor: Fix NVML initialization race condition ([#68431](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68431), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * cAdvisor: Fix brtfs filesystem discovery
    * cAdvisor: Fix race condition with AllDockerContainers

      `pods.beta.kubernetes.io/init-container-statuses` to
      `pods.beta.kubernetes.io/init-container-statuses`.
    * Any code that inspects this annotation should be changed to use the new key.
      State of Initialization will continue to be reported in both pods.alpha.kubernetes.io/initialized
      and in `podStatus.conditions.{status: "True", type: Initialized}`