- Added metrics for volume reconstruction during kubelet startup. ([#115965](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115965), [@jsafran...

  - The schema for the alpha `CSINodeInfo` CRD has been split into `spec` and `status` fields, and new fields `status.available` and `status.volumePluginMechanism` added. Clusters using the previous alpha schema must delete and recreate the CRD using the new schema. ([#70515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70515), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))...

- Resolves a regression in 1.19+ with workloads targeting deprecated beta os/arch labels getting stuck in NodeAffinity status on node startup. ([#96810](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96810), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Node]

* rkt version 1.23.0+

    * known issues with the rkt runtime are [listed in the Getting Started Guide](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/rkt/notes/)

* etcd version 3.0.17

* Go version: 1.8.3. [Link to announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-dev/0XRRz6UhhTM/YODWVnuDBQAJ)

container startup, as an alternative to baking in command-line flags when a
container is built.
     * Turnkey Deployments (Deployment API (Beta) in the Extensions API group)
automate deployment and rolling updates of applications, specified
declaratively. It handles versioning, multiple simultaneous rollouts,
aggregating status across all pods, maintaining application availability, and
rollback.

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  * `api-servers` - add apiserver addresses to the kubeconfig file instead.

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the kubelet to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the kubelet to abort the startup.

*   Kubelet no longer removes default labels from Node API objects on startup ([#54073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54073),[ @liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
*   The overlay2 container disk metrics for Docker and CRI-O now work properly. ([#54827](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54827),[ @dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

  - `spec.usages` is now required, may not contain duplicate values, and must only contain known usages
  - `status.conditions` may not contain duplicate types
  - `status.conditions[*].status` is now required

It is very simple and intuitive. It's designed to be easily extensible, and have modular components.

It has:

* Seriously impressive performance.
* WebSocket support.
* In-process background tasks.
* Startup and shutdown events.
* Test client built on HTTPX.
* CORS, GZip, Static Files, Streaming responses.
* Session and Cookie support.
* 100% test coverage.
* 100% type annotated codebase.
* Few hard dependencies.

- Make Azure clients only retry on specified HTTP status codes ([#88017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88017), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Pause image contains "Architecture" in non-amd64 images ([#87954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87954), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release]