- GCE/Windows: When the service cannot be stopped Stackdriver logging processes are now force killed ([#77378](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77378), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
- Reduced GCE log rotation check from 1 hour to every 5 minutes.  Rotation policy is unchanged (new day starts, log file size > 100MB). ([#76352](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76352), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- Reduce vSphere volume name to 63 characters ([#100404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100404), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]

* Allows changing nodeName in endpoint update. ([#68575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68575), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))
* Reduced excessive logging from fluentd-gcp-scaler. ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

## Changelog since v1.10.8

### Other notable changes

* Fix gpu issue after node instance recreation in 1.10. ([#69595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69595), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))
* Reduced excessive logging from fluentd-gcp-scaler. ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

 - Provides a fix to allow a cluster in a private Azure cloud to authenticate to ACR in the same cloud. ([#90425](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90425), [@DavidParks8](https://github.com/DavidParks8)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
 - Reduced frequency of DescribeVolumes calls of AWS API when attaching/detaching a volume.

- Scores from PodTopologySpreading have reduced differentiation as maxSkew increases. ([#90820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90820), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Provide IPv6 support for internal load balancer. ([#103794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103794), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Reduce the number of calls to docker for stats via dockershim. For Windows this reduces the latency when calling docker, for Linux this saves cpu cycles. ([#104287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104287), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant)) [SIG Node and Windows]

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- Reduced CPU and memory consumption of `kube-apiserver` if OpenAPI V2 will not be accessed by any client. Also improved performance of the apiserver on installation of many CRDs. ([#118212](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118212), [@Jefftree...

- An inefficient lock in EndpointSlice controller metrics cache has been reworked. Network programming latency may be significantly reduced in certain scenarios, especially in clusters with a large number of Services. ([#107091](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107091), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))