must contain '^' or the '//' prefix to anchor to the start, and '$' or the port separator ':' to anchor to 
  the end. ([#112809](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112809), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

* kubelet's `--cni-bin-dir` option now accepts multiple comma-separated CNI binary directory paths, which are searched for CNI plugins in the given order. ([#58714](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58714), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw))

* kubeadm: Control plane component configs are separated into ClusterConfiguration sub-structs. ([#70371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70371), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

address of the service account directly. (This is a breaking change if the numeric uniqueIDs of the Google service accounts were being used in RBAC role bindings. The behavior can be overridden by explicitly specifying the scope values as comma-separated string in the "users[*].config.scopes" field in the KUBECONFIG file.) This way, users can now  set a Google Service Account JSON key in the  GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable, craft a kubeconfig file with GKE master IP+CA cert,...

- Kubectl: add bash-completion for comma separated list on `kubectl get` ([#98301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98301), [@phil9909](https://github.com/phil9909))

* Action required: validation rule on metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name needs to contain at least three segments separated by dots. If you create objects with pending initializers, (i.e., not relying on apiserver adding pending initializers according to initializerconfiguration), you need to update the initializer name in existing objects and in configuration files to...

plugin is enabled.([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436))

* [Action required] The validation rule for metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name must contain at least three segments, separated by dots. You can create objects with pending initializers and not rely on the API server to add pending initializers according to `initializerConfiguration`. If you do so, update the initializer name in the existing objects and the configuration...

  - `v1alpha1` has been removed.
  - `v1alpha3` has split apart `MasterConfiguration` into separate components; `InitConfiguration`, `ClusterConfiguration`, `JoinConfiguration`, `KubeletConfiguration`, and `KubeProxyConfiguration`
  - Different configuration types can be supplied all in the same file separated by `---`.
- Improved CRI handling
  - crictl is no longer required in docker-only setups.

- Fixes high CPU usage in kubectl drain ([#95260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95260), [@amandahla](https://github.com/amandahla)) [SIG CLI]

- Kube-apiserver: multiple comma-separated protocols in a single X-Stream-Protocol-Version header are now recognized, in addition to multiple headers, complying with RFC2616 ([#89857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89857), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu)) [SIG API Machinery]...