- Static pods were taking extra time to be restarted after being updated.  Static pods that are waiting to restart were not correctly counted in `kubelet_working_pods`. ([#116995](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116995), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))...

    * `kube-apiserver-endpoint` storage namespace. The 'none' reconciler is a noop
    * reconciler that does not do anything. This is useful for self-hosted
    * environments.
* Improved Italian translation for kubectl ([#51463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51463), [@lucab85](https://github.com/lucab85))

### Failing Test

- Kubelet: the HostPort implementation in dockershim was not taking into consideration the HostIP field, causing that the same HostPort can not be used with different IP addresses.

    * Some refactoring of error/status messages and functions to align with new approach.
* This PR will leverage subtests on the existing table tests for the scheduler units. ([#63661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63661), [@xchapter7x](https://github.com/xchapter7x))
    * Some refactoring of error/status messages and functions to align with new approach.

    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-19)
  - [Changelog since v1.17.0](#changelog-since-v1170)
  - [What’s New (Major Themes)](#whats-new-major-themes)
    - [Kubernetes Topology Manager Moves to Beta - Align Up!](#kubernetes-topology-manager-moves-to-beta---align-up)
    - [Serverside Apply - Beta 2](#serverside-apply---beta-2)

- Kubectl now performs validation against OpenAPI schema instead of Swagger 1.2. If
  OpenAPI is not available on the server, it falls back to the old Swagger 1.2.

- Added Italian translation for kubectl.

- Added German translation for kubectl.

#### Scheduling

- Show a warning when `volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class` annotation is used in pv or pvc ([#117036](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117036), [@haoruan](https://github.com/haoruan)) [SIG Storage]

  Bump NodeProblemDetector version to v0.8.0 to reduce forced NodeStatus updates frequency to 5 minutes. ([#84007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84007), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
- The topology manager aligns resources for pods of all QoS classes with respect to NUMA locality, not just Guaranteed QoS pods. ([#83492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83492), [@ConnorDoyle](https://github.com/ConnorDoyle))

    * Some refactoring of error/status messages and functions to align with new approach.
* kubeadm upgrade now supports external etcd setups again ([#63495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63495), [@detiber](https://github.com/detiber))

- Added Service Account field in the output of `kubectl describe pod` command. ([#111192](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111192), [@aufarg](https://github.com/aufarg))