* Fixing logic to generate ExternalHost in genericapiserver ([#26796](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26796), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* federation: Updating federation-controller-manager to use secret to get federation-apiserver's kubeconfig ([#26819](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26819), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
### Other notable changes
* federation: fix dns provider initialization issues ([#27252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27252), [@mfanjie](https://github.com/mfanjie))
* Updating federation up scripts to work in non e2e setup ([#27260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27260), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* version bump for gci to milestone 53 ([#27210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27210), [@adityakali](https://github.com/adityakali))
* kubectl apply retry stale resource version ([#26557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26557), [@AdoHe](https://github.com/AdoHe))
* Revert "Wait for arc.getArchive() to complete before running tests" ([#27130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27130), [@pwittrock](https://github.com/pwittrock))
* ResourceQuota BestEffort scope aligned with Pod level QoS ([#26969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26969), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))
* AWS: cache instances during service reload to avoid rate limiting on restart ([#26900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26900), [@therc](https://github.com/therc))
* GCE provider: Log full contents of long operations ([#26962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26962), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Fix system container detection ([#26586](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26586), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))
* Added hpa/v1 generator to kubectl autoscale ([#26775](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26775), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))
* federation: Adding dnsprovider flags to federation-controller-manager ([#27158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27158), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* federation service controller: fixing a bug so that existing services are created in newly registered clusters ([#27028](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27028), [@mfanjie](https://github.com/mfanjie))
* Rename ENABLE_NODE_AUTOSCALER to ENABLE_CLUSTER_AUTOSCALER - part 2 ([#27117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27117), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* support for mounting local-ssds on GCI ([#27143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27143), [@adityakali](https://github.com/adityakali))
* AWS: support mixed plaintext/encrypted ports in ELBs via service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-ports annotation ([#26976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26976), [@therc](https://github.com/therc))
* Updating e2e docs with instructions on running federation tests ([#27072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27072), [@colhom](https://github.com/colhom))
* LBaaS v2 Support for Openstack Cloud Provider Plugin ([#25987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25987), [@dagnello](https://github.com/dagnello))
* GCI: add support for network plugin ([#27027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27027), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))
* Bump cAdvisor to v0.23.3 ([#27065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27065), [@timstclair](https://github.com/timstclair))
* Stop 'kubectl drain' deleting pods with local storage. ([#26667](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26667), [@mml](https://github.com/mml))
* Networking e2es: Wait for all nodes to be schedulable in kubeproxy and networking tests ([#27008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27008), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* change clientset of service controller to versioned ([#26694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26694), [@mfanjie](https://github.com/mfanjie))
* GCE: Enable using gcr.io as a Docker registry mirror. ([#25841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25841), [@ojarjur](https://github.com/ojarjur))
* correction on rbd volume object and defaults ([#25490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25490), [@rootfs](https://github.com/rootfs))
* Bump GCE debian image to container-v1-3-v20160604 ([#26851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26851), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Option to enable http2 on client connections. ([#25280](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25280), [@timothysc](https://github.com/timothysc))
* kubectl get ingress output remove rules ([#26684](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26684), [@AdoHe](https://github.com/AdoHe))
* GCI/Trusty: support the Docker registry mirror ([#26745](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26745), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))
* Added DNS Reverse Record logic for service IPs ([#26226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26226), [@ArtfulCoder](https://github.com/ArtfulCoder))
* read gluster log to surface glusterfs plugin errors properly in describe events ([#24808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24808), [@screeley44](https://github.com/screeley44))