* The Kubelet now supports the `--require-kubeconfig` option which reads all client config from the provided `--kubeconfig` file and will cause the Kubelet to exit with error code 1 on error.  It also forces the Kubelet to use the server URL from the kubeconfig file rather than the  `--api-servers` flag.  Without this flag set, a failure to read the kubeconfig file would only result in a warning message. ([#30798](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30798),...

* New federation deployment mechanism now allows non-GCP clusters. ([#34620](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34620), [@madhusudancs](https://github.com/madhusudancs))
  * Writes the federation kubeconfig to the local kubeconfig file.
* Update the series and the README to reflect the change. ([#30374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30374), [@mbruzek](https://github.com/mbruzek))