validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to be redirected to the API Server through its private network.

The merged fix enforces validation against the proxying address for a Node. In some cases, the fix can break clients that depend on the `nodes/proxy` subresource, specifically if a kubelet advertises a localhost or link-local address to the Kubernetes control plane. Configuring an egress proxy for egress to the cluster network can also...

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubeadm: generate CA certificates with a start time that is offset 5 minutes in the past relative to the current system time to workaround cases of clock desync.
  client-go: allow to set NotBefore in NewSelfSignedCACert() ([#119115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119115), [@champtar](https://github.com/champtar)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cluster Lifecycle]

- Ensure Azure availability zone is always in lower cases. ([#89722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89722), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

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` image pull policy, and might lead to the pod not starting if its pull policy is `Never` and is unable to present authentication information that led to a previous successful pull of the image it is requesting....

* Updates defaultbackend to 1.5 ([#69380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69380), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))
* Restrict redirect following from the apiserver to same-host redirects, and ignore redirects in some cases. ([#66516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66516), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

### Feature

- Kubeadm: generate CA certificates with a start time that is offset 5 minutes in the past relative to the current system time to workaround cases of clock desync.
  client-go: allow to set NotBefore in NewSelfSignedCACert() ([#119113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119113), [@champtar](https://github.com/champtar)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cluster Lifecycle]

validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to be redirected to the API Server through its private network.

The merged fix enforces validation against the proxying address for a Node. In some cases, the fix can break clients that depend on the `nodes/proxy` subresource, specifically if a kubelet advertises a localhost or link-local address to the Kubernetes control plane. Configuring an egress proxy for egress to the cluster network can also...

### SIG OpenStack

SIG-OpenStack continued to build out testing, with eleven acceptance tests covering a wide-range of scenarios and use-cases. During the 1.11 cycle our reporting back to test-grid has qualified the OpenStack cloud provider as a gating job for the Kubernetes release.

- In some cases, a Flex volume resize may leave a PVC with erroneous Resizing condition even after volume has been successfully expanded. Users may choose to delete the condition, but it is not required. ([#71470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/71470))

- Added warnings for overlap paths in ConfigMap, Secret, DownwardAPI, Projected. Added warning for cases when ProjectedVolume with sources is provided. ([#121968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121968), [@Peac36](https://github.com/Peac36))