* Bug fix: webhooks now do not skip cluster-scoped resources ([#58185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58185), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* Action required: Before upgrading your Kubernetes clusters, double check if you had configured webhooks for cluster-scoped objects (e.g., nodes, persistentVolume), these webhooks will start to take effect. Delete/modify the configs if that's not desirable.
### Other notable changes
* CustomResourceDefinitions: OpenAPI v3 validation schemas containing `$ref`references are no longer permitted (valid references could not be constructed previously because property ids were not permitted either). Before upgrading, ensure CRD definitions do not include those `$ref` fields. ([#58438](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58438), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))
* Ensure IP is set for Azure internal load balancer. ([#59083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59083), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Configurable etcd quota backend bytes in GCE ([#59259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59259), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Updates Calico version to v2.6.7 (Fixed a bug where Felix would crash when parsing a NetworkPolicy with a named port. See https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/releases/tag/v2.6.7) ([#59130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59130), [@caseydavenport](https://github.com/caseydavenport))
* cloudprovider/openstack: fix bug the tries to use octavia client to query flip ([#59075](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59075), [@jrperritt](https://github.com/jrperritt))
* Fixed a bug which caused the apiserver reboot failure in the presence of malfunctioning webhooks. ([#59073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59073), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* Configurable etcd compaction frequency in GCE ([#59106](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59106), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Prevent kubelet from getting wedged if initialization of modules returns an error. ([#59020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59020), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
*[GCE] Apiserver uses `InternalIP` as the most preferred kubelet address type by default. ([#59019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59019), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
* Expose Metrics Server metrics via /metric endpoint. ([#57456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57456), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))
* Get windows kernel version directly from registry ([#58498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixes a bug where kubelet crashes trying to free memory under memory pressure ([#58574](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58574), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))
* Updated priority of mirror pod according to PriorityClassName. ([#58485](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58485), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))
* Access to externally managed IP addresses via the kube-apiserver service proxy subresource is no longer allowed by default. This can be re-enabled via the `ServiceProxyAllowExternalIPs` feature gate, but will be disallowed completely in 1.11 ([#57265](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57265), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
* Detach and clear bad disk URI ([#58345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58345), [@rootfs](https://github.com/rootfs))
* Add apiserver metric for number of requests dropped because of inflight limit. ([#58340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58340), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* Add apiserver metric for current inflight-request usage. ([#58342](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58342), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* kube-apiserver is changed to use SSH tunnels for webhook iff the webhook is not directly routable from apiserver's network environment. ([#58644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58644), [@yguo0905](https://github.com/yguo0905))
* Update Calico version to v2.6.6 ([#58482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58482), [@tmjd](https://github.com/tmjd))
* Fix garbage collection and resource quota when the controller-manager uses --leader-elect=false ([#57340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57340), [@jmcmeek](https://github.com/jmcmeek))
* Fix a bug affecting nested data volumes such as secret, configmap, etc. ([#57422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57422), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith))
* Reduce Metrics Server memory requirement ([#58391](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58391), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))
* GCP: allow a master to not include a metadata concealment firewall rule (if it's not running the metadata proxy). ([#58104](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58104), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))
* Bump GCE metadata proxy to v0.1.9 to pick up security fixes. ([#58221](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58221), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))
* Fixes an issue where the resourceVersion of an object in a DELETE watch event was not the resourceVersion of the delete itself, but of the last update to the object. This could disrupt the ability of clients clients to re-establish watches properly. ([#58547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fixed encryption key and encryption provider rotation ([#58375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58375), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Correctly handle transient connection reset errors on GET requests from client library. ([#58520](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58520), [@porridge](https://github.com/porridge))
* Avoid controller-manager to crash when enabling IP alias for K8s cluster. ([#58557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58557), [@jingax10](https://github.com/jingax10))
