- Reduced excessive logging in the Volume Binding scheduler plugin by lowering the verbosity of high-frequency messages from `V(4)` to `V(5)`. ([#132840](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132840), [@ppmechlinski](https://github.com/ppmechlinski)) [SIG Autoscaling,...

- **Overhauled metrics**: Kubernetes has previously made extensive use of a global metrics registry to register metrics to be exposed. By implementing a metrics registry, metrics are registered in more transparent means. Previously, Kubernetes metrics have been excluded from any kind of stability requirements.

* Fixes a flaw (CVE-2019-11253) in json/yaml decoding where large or malformed documents could consume excessive server resources. Request bodies for normal API requests (create/delete/update/patch operations of regular resources) are now limited to 3MB. ([#83261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83261), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

- Reduced the number of cloud API calls and service downtime caused by excessive re-configurations of cluster LBs with externalTrafficPolicy=Local when node readiness changes (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/111539). The service controller (in cloud-controller-manager) will avoid resyncing nodes which are transitioning...

- Fixed a bug where improper storage and comparison of endpoints led to excessive API traffic from the endpoints controller ([#94112](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94112), [@damemi](https://github.com/damemi)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

- Fixed a bug where improper storage and comparison of endpoints led to excessive API traffic from the endpoints controller ([#94934](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94934), [@damemi](https://github.com/damemi)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

### Other notable changes

* Fix gpu issue after node instance recreation in 1.10. ([#69595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69595), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))
* Reduced excessive logging from fluentd-gcp-scaler. ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

* adjusted http/2 buffer sizes for apiservers to prevent starvation issues between concurrent streams ([#67902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67902), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Reduced excessive logging from fluentd-gcp-scaler. ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

* Fixes a flaw (CVE-2019-11253) in json/yaml decoding where large or malformed documents could consume excessive server resources. Request bodies for normal API requests (create/delete/update/patch operations of regular resources) are now limited to 3MB. ([#83261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83261), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

* Allows changing nodeName in endpoint update. ([#68575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68575), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))
* Reduced excessive logging from fluentd-gcp-scaler. ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))