- kube-apiserver: the `--runtime-config` flag now supports an `api/beta=false` value which disables all built-in REST API versions matching `v[0-9]+beta[0-9]+`. ([#84304](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84304), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Switch to VM Update call in attach/detach disk operation, original CreateOrUpdate call may lead to orphaned VMs or blocked resources ([#81208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81208), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Update the GCE windows node image to include hot fixes since July. ([#81233](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81233), [@YangLu1031](https://github.com/YangLu1031))
* switch to VM Update call in attach/detach disk operation, original CreateOrUpdate call may lead to orphaned VMs or blocked resources ([#81208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81208), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

	      * Time duration tracked was of the initial API call, not the entire operation.

	      * Metrics label tuple would have resulted in many independent histograms stored, one for each disk. (Did not aggregate well).

- A new `DisableCompression` field (default = `false`) has been added to kubeconfig under cluster info. When set to `true`, clients using the kubeconfig opt out of response compression for all requests to the apiserver. This can help improve list call latencies significantly when client-server network bandwidth is ample (>30MB/s) or if the server is CPU-constrained. ([#112309](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112309), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))...

- Fixed missing delete events on informer re-lists to ensure all delete events were correctly emitted and using the latest known object state, so that all event handlers and stores always reflect the actual apiserver state as best as possible ([#11...

LIST calls into multiple smaller chunks. A client can specify a limit to the number of results to return. If more results exist, a token is returned that allows the client to continue the previous list call repeatedly until all results are retrieved.  The resulting list is identical to a list call that does not perform chunking, thanks to capabilities provided by etcd3.  This allows the server to use less memory and CPU when very large lists are returned. This feature is gated as APIListChunking...

returned that allows the client to continue the previous list call repeatedly until all results are retrieved.  The resulting list is identical to a list call that does not perform chunking thanks to capabilities provided by etcd3.  This allows the server to use less memory and CPU responding with very large lists.  This feature is gated as APIListChunking and is not enabled by default.  The 1.9 release will begin using this by default from all informers. ([#48921](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48921),...

* etcd2: watching from 0 returns all initial states as ADDED events ([#38079](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38079), [@hon...

- Optimize code, filter podUID is empty string when call this `getPodAndContainerForDevice` method. ([#126997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126997), [@...