* Add a flag allowing contention profiling of the API server ([#36756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36756), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* Rename `--cgroups-per-qos` to `--experimental-cgroups-per-qos` in Kubelet ([#36767](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36767), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))

- The `apiserver` exposes 4 new metrics that allow to track the status of the Service CIDRs allocations:
      - current number of available IPs per Service CIDR
      - current number of used IPs per Service CIDR
      - total number of allocation per Service CIDR
      - total number of allocation errors per ServiceCIDR ([#104119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104119), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

## Changes since v1.1.1

### Major Themes

  * <strong>Significant scale improvements</strong>. Increased cluster scale by 400% to 1000 nodes with 30,000 pods per cluster.
Kubelet supports 100 pods per node with 4x reduced system overhead.
  * <strong>Simplified application deployment and management. </strong>
     * Dynamic Configuration (ConfigMap API in the core API group) enables application

You can read more in the official blog post [Kubernetes Release Cadence Change: Here’s What You Need To Know](https://blog.k8s.io/2021/07/20/new-kubernetes-release-cadence/).

  - Clone `kubernetes/kubernetes` in `update-vendor.sh` shallowly, instead of fetching all revisions
  - Speed up binpacking by reducing the number of PreFilter calls (call once per pod instead of #pods*#nodes times)
  - Speed up finding unneeded nodes by 5x+ in very large clusters by reducing the number of PreFilter calls
  - Expose `--max-nodes-total` as a metric

  - `kubectl` outputs warnings to stderr, and accepts a `--warnings-as-errors` option to treat warnings as fatal errors
  - `k8s.io/client-go` outputs warnings to stderr by default; override this per-client by setting `config.WarningHandler`, or per-process with `rest.SetDefaultWarningHandler()`

- For raw block CSI volumes on Kubernetes, kubelet was incorrectly calling CSI NodeStageVolume for every single "map" (i.e. raw block "mount") operation for a volume already attached to the node. This PR ensures it is only called once per volume per node. ([#112403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112403), [@akankshakumari393](https://github.com/akankshakumari393)) [SIG Storage]

* Send recycle events from pod to pv. ([#27714](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27714), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* Limit the number of names per image reported in the node status ([#32914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32914), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

- For raw block CSI volumes on Kubernetes, kubelet was incorrectly calling CSI NodeStageVolume for every single "map" (i.e. raw block "mount") operation for a volume already attached to the node. This PR ensures it is only called once per volume per node. ([#112403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112403), [@akankshakumari393](https://github.com/akankshakumari393)) [SIG Storage]

* azure: update disk lock logic per vm during attach/detach to allow concurrent updates for different nodes. ([#85115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85115), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))