- Promoted the feature gate `HonorPVReclaimPolicy` to GA. ([#129583](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129583), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps, Storage and Testing]

- Fix Azurefile volumeid collision issue in csi migration ([#107575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107575), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix e2e test "Services should respect internalTrafficPolicy=Local Pod and Node, to Pod (hostNetwork: true)" ([#107902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107902), [@xueqzhan](https://github.com/xueqzhan)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- api-machinery utility functions `SetTransportDefaults` and `DialerFor` once again respect custom Dial functions set on transports ([#65547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

                // this is so damn unreliable, needs another race-prone query if required
                haveAttributes = false;

                // This seems to be the only way to obtain a reliable (with respect to locking) file size here
                // It is more critical than other attributes because append mode depends on it.
                // We do only really care if we open for writing and not shared for writing

## Changelog since v1.16.0

### Other notable changes

* Limit the body length of exec readiness/liveness probes. remote CRIs and Docker shim read a max of 16MB output of which the exec probe itself inspects 10kb. ([#82514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82514), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

  metrics API. Deploy `metrics-server` as an add-on in the same way that you deploy Heapster.

##### Cluster Autoscaler

* Cluster autoscaler is now GA
* Cluster support size is increased to 1000 nodes
* Respect graceful pod termination of up to 10 minutes
* Handle zone stock-outs and failures
* Improve monitoring and error reporting

#### Container Runtime Interface (CRI)

pkg go/ast, func FilterFile(*File, Filter) bool
pkg go/ast, func FilterPackage(*Package, Filter) bool
pkg go/ast, func Fprint(io.Writer, *token.FileSet, interface{}, FieldFilter) error
pkg go/ast, func Inspect(Node, func(Node) bool)
pkg go/ast, func IsExported(string) bool
pkg go/ast, func MergePackageFiles(*Package, MergeMode) *File
pkg go/ast, func NewIdent(string) *Ident
pkg go/ast, func NewObj(ObjKind, string) *Object

- Introduced PodHasNetwork condition for pods. ([#111358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111358), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))
- Introduced support for handling pod failures with respect to the configured pod failure policy rules. ([#111113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111113), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

* `kubectl patch` now supports `--dry-run`. ([#60675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60675), [@timoreimann](https://github.com/timoreimann))
* The global flag `--match-server-version` is now global.  `kubectl version` will respect it. ([#63613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63613), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- Register/Deregister Targets in chunks for AWS TargetGroup ([#101592](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101592), [@M00nF1sh](https://github.com/M00nF1sh)) [SIG Cloud Provider]