### SIG UI

The migration to the newest version of Angular is still under active development as it is most important thing on the roadmap at the moment. We are getting closer to the new release. We continue fixing bugs and adding other improvements.

### SIG VMWare

   ([#123190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123190), [@padlar](https://github.com/padlar))
- Allowed scheduling framework plugins that implement `io.Closer` to be gracefully closed.
   ([#122498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122498), [@Gekko0114](https://github.com/Gekko0114))
- Bumped cAdvisor to `v0.49.0`.

A <code>nil</code> channel is never ready for communication.
</p>

<p>
A channel may be closed with the built-in function
<a href="#Close"><code>close</code></a>.
The multi-valued assignment form of the
<a href="#Receive_operator">receive operator</a>
reports whether a received value was sent before
the channel was closed.
</p>

<p>
A single channel may be used in

- Apiserver add a new flag --goaway-chance which is the fraction of requests that will be closed gracefully(GOAWAY) to prevent HTTP/2 clients from getting stuck on a single apiserver. 
  After the connection closed(received GOAWAY), the client's other in-flight requests won't be affected, and the client will reconnect. 

- `DelayingQueue.ShutDown()` can now be invoked multiple times without causing a closed channel panic. ([#77170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77170), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- Kubeadm: increase robustness for "kubeadm join" when adding etcd members on slower setups ([#90645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90645), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

    * Default value for expendable pod priority cutoff in GCP deployment of Cluster Autoscaler changed from 0 to -10.
    * action required: users deploying workloads with priority lower than 0 may want to use priority lower than -10 to avoid triggering scale-up.
* [action required] kubeadm: The `v1alpha1` config API has been removed. ([#65628](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65628), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

* admission webhook registrations without a specific failure policy default to failing closed. ([#54162](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54162), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- Added remote runtime and image `Close()` method to be able to close the connection. ([#133211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133211), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Node]

- The Kubernetes API server now correctly detects and closes existing TLS connections when its client certificate file for kubelet authentication has been rotated. ([#115315](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115315), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Node and Testing]