- CRD deep copies should no longer contain shallow copies of `JSONSchemaProps.XValidations`. ([#107956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107956), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy))

## Changelog since v1.8.1

### Other notable changes

* Allow for configuring etcd hostname in the manifest ([#54403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54403), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Allow standard flags in client-gen. ([#53999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53999), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

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  - [Changelog since v1.21.4](#changelog-since-v1214)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information)
    - [CVE-2021-25741: Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access](#cve-2021-25741-symlink-exchange-can-allow-host-filesystem-access)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-8)
    - [Feature](#feature-6)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-8)

### Fixes

* 🐛 Allow exit code for dependencies with `yield` to always execute, by removing capacity limiter for them, to e.g. allow closing DB connections without deadlocks. PR [#5122](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5122) by [@adriangb](https://github.com/adriangb).

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. * */
    String API_CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN = "api.cors.allow.origin";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. GET, POST, OPTIONS, DELETE, PUT */
    String API_CORS_ALLOW_METHODS = "api.cors.allow.methods";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. 3600 */
    String API_CORS_MAX_AGE = "api.cors.max.age";

  - [Changelog since v1.22.1](#changelog-since-v1221)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-2)
    - [CVE-2021-25741: Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access](#cve-2021-25741-symlink-exchange-can-allow-host-filesystem-access)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-14)
    - [Feature](#feature-7)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-14)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-15)

    - [Skip Volume Ownership change graduates to GA](#skip-volume-ownership-change-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Allow CSI drivers to opt-in to volume ownership and permission change graduates to GA](#allow-csi-drivers-to-opt-in-to-volume-ownership-and-permission-change-graduates-to-ga)
    - [PodSecurity graduates to Beta](#podsecurity-graduates-to-beta)

- Allow to monitor client-go DNS resolver latencies via `rest_client_dns_resolution_duration_seconds` Prometheus metric. ([#115357](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115357), [@mfojtik](https://github.com/mfojtik))

- Allow-list of metric labels can be configured by supplying a manifest using the --allow-metric-labels-manifest flag ([#118299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118299), [@rexagod](https://github.com/rexagod)) [SIG Architecture and Instrumentation]