* Support new NODE_OS_DISTRIBUTION 'custom' on GCE ([#61235](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61235), [@yguo0905](https://github.com/yguo0905))
* Fixed missing error checking that could cause kubelet to crash in a race condition. ([#60962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60962), [@technicianted](https://github.com/technicianted))

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### Bug or Regression
 - Base-images: Update to kube-cross:v1.13.9-5 ([#90965](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90965), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release]
 - CSINode initialization does not crash kubelet on startup when APIServer is not reachable or kubelet has not the right credentials yet. ([#89589](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89589), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]

* Clean links handling in cp's tar code ([#76788](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76788), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Fix issue in Portworx volume driver causing controller manager to crash ([#76341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76341), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))

* Improve Azure instance metadata handling by adding caches. ([#70353](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70353), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fix cloud-controller-manager crash when using OpenStack provider and PersistentVolume initializing controller   ([#70459](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70459), [@mvladev](https://github.com/mvladev))

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 * ```
 *
 * If your client has a cache, call [close()][Cache.close]. Note that it is an error to create calls
 * against a cache that is closed, and doing so will cause the call to crash.
 *
 * ```java
 * client.cache().close();
 * ```
 *
 * OkHttp also uses daemon threads for HTTP/2 connections. These will exit automatically if they
 * remain idle.
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* Fixes issue where if the audit log is enabled and anonymous authentication is disabled, then an unauthenticated user request will cause a panic and crash the `kube-apiserver`. ([#38717](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38717), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

## Known Issues for v1.5.1

- Fixed an issue that could cause the kubelet to incorrectly run concurrent pod reconciliation loops and crash. ([#89055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89055), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu)) [SIG Node]

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a potential crash serving CustomResourceDefinitions that combine an invalid schema and CEL validation rules. ([#126167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126167), [@cici37](https://github.com/cici37)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- The Kubelet's `--really-crash-for-testing` and  `--chaos-chance` options are now marked as deprecated. ([#90499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90499), [@knabben](https://github.com/knabben)) [SIG Node]