* plus is placed in a defer call so the locking is effectively
    * nonexistent.  This patch adds an anonymous function call inside
    * the loop to correctly handle acquiring the write lock with deferred
    * unlock to run at that function's completion, following the normal
    * golang lock/deferred-unlock pattern.

    * plus is placed in a defer call so the locking is effectively
    * nonexistent.  This patch adds an anonymous function call inside
    * the loop to correctly handle acquiring the write lock with deferred
    * unlock to run at that function's completion, following the normal
    * golang lock/deferred-unlock pattern.

- Kubelet: Fix kubelet from panic after getting the wrong signal ([#98200](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98200), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Kubelet: Fix repeatedly acquiring the inhibit lock ([#98088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98088), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

that allows it to track container images and the list of authentication information that leads to their successful pulls. This data is persisted across reboots of the host and restarts of the kubelet.
  
  The kubelet ensures any image requiring credential verification is always pulled if authentication information from an image pull is not yet present, thus enforcing authentication / re-authentication. This means an image pull might be attempted even in cases where a pod requests the `IfNotPresent`...

  [overwrite of manual edits to GCP Health Checks](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/issues/842)
  managed by the GLBC Ingress Controller. This can cause the health checks to start failing,
  requiring you to reapply the manual edits.
  * This issue does not affect clusters that were already running Kubernetes v1.6.4 or higher.
  * This issue does not affect Health Checks that were left in the configuration

list of group aliases (e.g. "all") that every resource belongs to. ([#43338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43338), [@fabianofranz](https://github.com/fabianofranz))

* `--service-account-lookup` now defaults to true, requiring the Secret API object containing the token to exist in order for a service account token to be valid. This enables service account tokens to be revoked by deleting the Secret object containing the token. ([#44071](https://github.com/kubernetes/k...

- Removed an inaccurate statement about requiring ports when the Pod spec `hostNetwork` field was set. ([#130994](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130994), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Network and Node]

- In "large" clusters, kube-proxy in iptables mode will now sometimes
  leave unused rules in iptables for a while (up to `--iptables-sync-period`)
  before deleting them. This improves performance by not requiring it to
  check for stale rules on every sync. (In smaller clusters, it will still
  remove unused rules immediately once they are no longer used.)

  (The threshold for "large" used here is currently "1000 endpoints" but

### Uncategorized

- Deprecate kubectl version long output, will be replaced with kubectl version ` --short`. Users requiring full output should use `--output=yaml|json` instead. ([#108987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108987), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))


## Dependencies

### Added

* [alpha] Improve Flex volume deployment

  * Flex volume driver deployment is simplified in the following ways:

    * New driver files can now be automatically discovered and initialized without requiring a kubelet or controller-manager restart.

    * A sample DaemonSet to deploy Flexvolume drivers is now available.

* [prototype] Volume snapshots