* kubelet `--cert-dir` now defaults to `/var/lib/kubelet/pki`, in order to ensure bootstrapped and rotated certificates persist beyond a reboot. resolves an issue in kubeadm with false-positive `/var/lib/kubelet is not empty` message during pre-flight checks ([#53317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53317), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  //    information on the connection between this volume type
  //    and PersistentVolumeClaim).
  //
  // Use PersistentVolumeClaim or one of the vendor-specific
  // APIs for volumes that persist for longer than the lifecycle
  // of an individual pod.
  //
  // Use CSI for light-weight local ephemeral volumes if the CSI driver is meant to
  // be used that way - see the documentation of the driver for

- `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` and `ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding` objects are
  persisted in `etcd` using the `v1beta1` version. Either remove alpha objects, or disable the
  alpha `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` feature in a `v1.27` server before upgrading to a

## Changelog since v1.21.8

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kube-apiserver: when merging lists, Server Side Apply now prefers the order of the submitted request instead of the existing persisted object ([#107569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107569), [@jiahuif](https://github.com/jiahuif)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Storage and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

* 🌐 Add German translation for `docs/de/docs/tutorial/body-nested-models.md`. PR [#10313](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/10313) by [@nilslindemann](https://github.com/nilslindemann).
* 🌐 Add Persian translation for `docs/fa/docs/tutorial/middleware.md`. PR [#9695](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/9695) by [@mojtabapaso](https://github.com/mojtabapaso).

repeating the previous list.  The number of identifiers must be equal
to the number of expressions in the previous list.
Together with the <a href="#Iota"><code>iota</code> constant generator</a>
this mechanism permits light-weight declaration of sequential values:
</p>

<pre>
const (
	Sunday = iota
	Monday
	Tuesday
	Wednesday
	Thursday
	Friday
	Partyday

- Protobuf serialization of metav1.MicroTime timestamps (used in `Lease` and `Event` API objects) has been corrected to truncate to microsecond precision, to match the documented behavior and JSON/YAML serialization. Any existing persisted data is truncated to microsecond when read from etcd. ([#111936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111936), [@haoruan](https://github.com/haoruan)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Feature

- Protobuf serialization of metav1.MicroTime timestamps (used in `Lease` and `Event` API objects) has been corrected to truncate to microsecond precision, to match the documented behavior and JSON/YAML serialization. Any existing persisted data is truncated to microsecond when read from etcd. ([#111936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111936), [@haoruan](https://github.com/haoruan)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Bug or Regression

  - pod eviction API calls returned spurious precondition errors and required a second evict API call to succeed
  - dry-run eviction API calls persisted a DisruptionTarget condition into the pod being evicted ([#116750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116750), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

  - pod eviction API calls returned spurious precondition errors and required a second evict API call to succeed
  - dry-run eviction API calls persisted a DisruptionTarget condition into the pod being evicted ([#116554](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116554), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree))