- Kube-apiserver backed by etcd3 exports metric showing the database file size. ([#89151](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89151), [@jingyih](https://github.com/jingyih)) [SIG API Machinery]

- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/oteltest: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/export/metric: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace: v0.20.0

    * Old behavior:
      * environment variables explicitly whitelisted via --docker-env-metadata-whitelist were exported as `container_env_*=*`. Default is zero so by default non were exported
      * all docker labels were exported as `container_label_*=*`
    * New behavior:
      * Only `container_name`, `pod_name`, `namespace`, `id`, `image`, and `name` labels are exposed

### Internal Storage Layer

    * Old behavior:
      * environment variables explicitly whitelisted via --docker-env-metadata-whitelist were exported as `container_env_*=*`. Default is zero so by default non were exported
      * all docker labels were exported as `container_label_*=*`
    * New behavior:
      * Only `container_name`, `pod_name`, `namespace`, `id`, `image`, and `name` labels are exposed

## Deprecations and Removals

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert`, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.
  - The `--pod`/`-p` flag for `kubectl exec`, deprecated since 1.12, has been removed.

  * vendor volumes into a pod. It expects vendor drivers are installed in the
volume plugin path on each kubelet node. This is an alpha feature and may
change in future.

([#69099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69099), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

## Deprecations

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert` is deprecated and will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command is deprecated and will be removed in v1.18. ([#73787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73787), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

- kubelet

* support for mounting local-ssds on GCI ([#27143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27143), [@adityakali](https://github.com/adityakali))
* AWS: support mixed plaintext/encrypted ports in ELBs via service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-ports annotation ([#26976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26976), [@therc](https://github.com/therc))

* Stackdriver cluster logging now deploys a new component to export Kubernetes events. ([#46700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46700), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))