- The `StructuredAuthenticationConfiguration` feature is now beta and enabled. ([#123719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123719), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))
- The `kube_codegen` tool now ignores the vendor folder during code generation.
   ([#122729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122729), [@jparrill](https://github.com/jparrill))

- Fixed a bug that an init container with containerRestartPolicy with `Always` cannot update its state from terminated to non-terminated for the pod with restartPolicy with `Never` or `OnFailure`. ([#123709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123709), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Apps]

  of probes, labels, annotations and initContainers from copy pod. ([#123149](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123149), [@mochizuki875](https://github.com/mochizuki875)) [SIG CLI and Testing]
- Added `cri-client` staging repository. ([#123797](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123797), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery, Node, Release and Testing]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Build etcd image v3.5.12 ([#123069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123069), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni)) [SIG API Machinery and Etcd]

## Dependencies

### Bug or Regression

- Emition of RecreatingFailedPod and RecreatingTerminatedPod events has been removed from stateful set lifecycle. ([#123809](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123809), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Revised the logic for DaemonSet rolling update to exclude nodes if scheduling constraints are not met.
  This eliminates the problem of rolling updates to a DaemonSet getting stuck around tolerations. ([#120789](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120789), [@mochizuki875](https://github.com/mochizuki875)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Added `apiserver_longrunning_requests` metric to replace the soon to be deprecated `apiserver_longrunning_gauge` metric. ([#103799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103799), [@jyz0309](https://github.com/jyz0309))
- Controller-manager: the following flags have no effect and would be removed in v1.24:
  - `--port`
  - `--address`

- Improved handling of unmount failures when device may be in-use by another container/process. ([#107789](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107789), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- The reason and message fields for pod status are no longer reset unless the phase also changes. ([#103785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103785), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]