[gardener]

🏃 Others

• [OPERATOR] Increase limits for etcd to avoid potential long down time during maintenance window. (#3921, @timuthy)
• [OPERATOR] The update procedure of Gardener's Care Controller has been improved so that the Status sub-resource of a shoot always reflects the latest results of health and constraint checks. (#3920, @timuthy)
• [OPERATOR] Configure VPA minAllowed for dependency-watchdog. (#3919, @timuthy)
• [OPERATOR] A bug has been fixed which prevented shoot from being scheduled, hibernated or maintained when they hold references to external resources via shoot.spec.resources. (#3915, @timuthy)

[autoscaler]

✨ New Features

• [USER] Enable configuraiton of flags such as control-apiserver-burst, control-apiserver-qps, target-apiserver-burst, target-apiserver-qps and min-resync-period for kubernetes client configurations while fetching objects for MCM cloud provider. (gardener/autoscaler#73, @prashanth26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [OPERATOR] Switch to using cached informers to fetch cloud provider details more optimally. (gardener/autoscaler#73, @prashanth26)

Docker Images

admission-controller: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/admission-controller:v1.20.4
apiserver: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/apiserver:v1.20.4
controller-manager: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/controller-manager:v1.20.4
scheduler: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/scheduler:v1.20.4
gardenlet: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/gardenlet:v1.20.4
seed-admission-controller: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/seed-admission-controller:v1.20.4
landscaper-gardenlet: eu.gcr.io/gardener-project/gardener/landscaper-gardenlet:v1.20.4