- [**API Server**](#api-server)
      - [**Cloud Provider Integration**](#cloud-provider-integration)
      - [**Kubeadm**](#kubeadm)
      - [**Juju**](#juju)
      - [**Other**](#other-2)
      - [**GCP**](#gcp)
    - [**Instrumentation**](#instrumentation-1)
      - [**Audit**](#audit-2)
      - [**Other**](#other-3)
    - [**Multicluster**](#multicluster-1)
      - [**Federation**](#federation)

  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-13)
    - [Apps](#apps)
    - [AWS](#aws)
    - [Auth](#auth-1)
    - [CLI](#cli-1)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle)
    - [GCP](#gcp)
    - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation)
    - [Node](#node-1)
    - [OpenStack](#openstack-1)
    - [Scalability](#scalability)
    - [Storage](#storage-1)
    - [Windows](#windows-1)

* fluentd-gcp addon: Fix fluentd deployment on GCP when custom resources are set. ([#55950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55950), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

### GCP

- [stackdriver addon] Bumped prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

* Reduce amount of noise in Stackdriver Logging, generated by the event-exporter component in the fluentd-gcp addon. ([#48712](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48712), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Add generic NoSchedule toleration to fluentd in gcp config. ([#48182](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48182), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.
    * [metatada-proxy addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.
    * [metatada-proxy addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

Related to this topic, the in-tree Azure and GCP authentication plugins have been [deprecated](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102181) in favor of out-of-tree implementations.

### Server-side Apply graduates to GA

## Changelog since v1.18.2

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression
 - An issue preventing GCP cloud-controller-manager running out-of-cluster to initialize new Nodes is now fixed. ([#90057](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90057), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps and Cloud Provider]

- The `gcp` and `azure` auth plugins have been removed from client-go and kubectl. See https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin and https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/kubectl-auth-changes-in-gke ([#110013](https://github.com/kubernetes/kub...