- kubeadm now automatically sets the `--pod-infra-container-image` flag when starting the kubelet.

### SIG IBM Cloud

* Block device support has been added for azure disk. ([#63841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63841), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Azure VM names can now contain the underscore (`_`) character ([#63526](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63526), [@djsly](https://github.com/djsly))
* Azure disks now support external resource groups.

- The etcd client library vendored in v1.16 (github.com/coreos/etcd/clientv3) has a bug where IPv6 IP addresses get incorrectly trimmed to the first occurance of the `:` character. This affects all users of the client library including the kube-apiserver and kubeadm. We are targeting the fix for this bug in v1.16.3. ([#83550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/83550))

## Urgent Upgrade Notes

### Auth

- Fixed OpenID Connect (OIDC) token refresh when the client secret contains a special character. ([#76914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76914), [@tsuna](https://github.com/tsuna))

* Azure VMSS: support VM names to contain the `_` character ([#63526](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63526), [@djsly](https://github.com/djsly))

* Support new NODE_OS_DISTRIBUTION 'custom' on GCE ([#61235](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61235), [@yguo0905](https://github.com/yguo0905))
* Fixes a bug where character devices are not recognized by the kubelet ([#60440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60440), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

* Fix FastAPI serialization of Pydantic models using ORM mode blocking the event loop. PR [#888](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/888).

## 0.47.0

* Refactor documentation to make a simpler and shorter [Tutorial - User Guide](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/) and an additional [Advanced User Guide](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/) with all the additional docs. PR [#887](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/887).

For more information, see [#53040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53040).

* Object quotas are not consistently charged or updated. Specifically, the object count quota does not reliably account for uninitialized objects. Some quotas are charged only when an object is initialized. Others are charged when an object is created, whether it is initialized or not. We plan to fix this issue in a future release.

characteristics (for example, a larger limit for larger nodes, a smaller limit for smaller nodes).

SIG Storage also worked on a number of [Container Storage Interface (CSI) features](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/178) this quarter in anticipation of moving support for CSI from beta to GA in the next Kubernetes release. This includes graduating the dependent “mount namespace propagation” feature to GA, moving the Kubelet plugin registration mechanism to beta, adding alpha support...

- Added a `--topology-manager-policy-options` flag to the kubelet to support fine tuning the topology manager policies. The first policy option, `prefer-closest-numa-nodes`, allows these policies to favor sets of NUMA nodes with shorter distance between nodes when making admission decisions. ([#112914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112914), [@PiotrProkop](https://github.com/PiotrProkop))