- The new flag `--chunk-size=SIZE` for `kubectl drain` has been promoted to beta, and enabled by default. This flag  may be used to alter the number of items or disable this feature when `0` is passed. ([#100148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100148), [@KnVerey](https://github.com/KnVerey))

  // Indicate how the termination message should be populated. File will use the contents of
  // terminationMessagePath to populate the container status message on both success and failure.
  // FallbackToLogsOnError will use the last chunk of container log output if the termination
  // message file is empty and the container exited with an error.
  // The log output is limited to 2048 bytes or 80 lines, whichever is smaller.
  // Defaults to File.

    * PR [#1851](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1851) based on original PR [#1627](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1627) by [@chrisngyn](https://github.com/chrisngyn), [@YKo20010](https://github.com/YKo20010), [@kx-chen](https://github.com/kx-chen).
* Re-enable Gitter releases bot. PR [#1831](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1831).

- Faster mount detection for linux kernel 5.10+ using openat2 speeding up pod churn rates. On Kernel versions less 5.10, it will fallback to using the original way of detecting mount points i.e by parsing /proc/mounts. ([#109217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109217), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))

### SIG Apps

- KCCM: fixed transient node addition and removal caused by #121090 while syncing load balancers on large clusters with a lot of churn. ([#121091](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121091), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu))

* Fixed regression in initial kubectl exec terminal dimensions ([#51127](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51127), [@chen-anders](https://github.com/chen-anders))

* Fix initial exec terminal dimensions. ([#51126](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51126), [@chen-anders](https://github.com/chen-anders))
* vSphere: Fix attach volume failing on the first try. ([#51218](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51218), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))



# v1.6.9

*   [beta] Flag `--chunk-size={SIZE}` is added to `kubectl get` to customize the number of results returned in large lists of resources. This reduces the perceived latency of managing large clusters because the server returns the first set of results to the client much more...

### Bug or Regression