* Fixed bug allowing garbage collector to enter a broken state that could only be fixed by restarting the controller-manager. ([#61201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61201), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))

- Added `apiserver_watch_list_duration_seconds` metrics which will measure response latency distribution in seconds for watchlist requests broken by group, version, resource and scope. ([#120490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120490), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

## Changelog since v1.7.12

### Other notable changes

* Bump Cluster Autoscaler to 0.6.3 version ([#59192](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59192), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* Fix a broken configuration of prometheus-to-sd for fluentd and event-exporter. ([#58959](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58959), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

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* Timeout docker queries to prevent node going NotReady indefinitely. ([#56967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56967), [@jsravn](https://github.com/jsravn))
* Fix bug allowing garbage collector to enter a broken state that could only be fixed by restarting the controller-manager. ([#61201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61201), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))

* Add support for adding/removing finalizer depending on PVC protection feature gate ([#61370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61370), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Fix bug allowing garbage collector to enter a broken state that could only be fixed by restarting the controller-manager. ([#61201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61201), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))

  
  Fixed multiple iptables proxy regressions introduced in 1.22:
  
    - When using Services with SessionAffinity, client affinity for an
      endpoint now gets broken when that endpoint becomes non-ready
      (rather than continuing until the endpoint is fully deleted).
  
    - Traffic to a service IP now starts getting rejected (as opposed to

* Fix `kubectl logs -f` for windows server containers. ([#81747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81747), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
* Fix VMSS LoadBalancer backend pools so that the network won't be broken when instances are upgraded to latest model ([#81411](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81411), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

- A new kubelet metric `image_pull_duration_seconds` was added. The metric tracks the duration (in seconds) it takes for an image to be pulled, including the time spent in the waiting queue of image puller. The metric is broken down by bucketed image size. ([#121719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121719), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))

- Kubelet: fix GetAllocatableCPUs method in cpumanager ([#113421](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113421), [@Garrybest](https://github.com/Garrybest)) [SIG Node]
- Pod logs using --timestamps are not broken up with timestamps anymore. ([#113516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113516), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._