* Fixes a bug in the OpenStack-Heat kubernetes provider, in the handling of differences between the Identity v2 and Identity v3 APIs ([#40105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40105), [@sc68cal](https://github.com/sc68cal))

### Container Images

- Kube-apiserver now maintains a Lease object to identify itself: 
  - The feature is under feature gate `APIServerIdentity`. 
  - Two flags are added to kube-apiserver: `identity-lease-duration-seconds`, `identity-lease-renew-interval-seconds` ([#95533](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95533), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fix pull image error from multiple ACRs using azure managed identity ([#96355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96355), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  // +optional
  optional ServiceStatus status = 3;
}

// ServiceAccount binds together:
// * a name, understood by users, and perhaps by peripheral systems, for an identity
// * a principal that can be authenticated and authorized
// * a set of secrets
message ServiceAccount {
  // Standard object's metadata.

- Renamed API server identity Lease labels to use the key `apiserver.kubernetes.io/identity` ([#114586](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114586), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Cloud Provider and Testing]

#### Azure

- TaintNodeByCondition has been moved to Beta and is enabled by default.
- Scheduler throughput has been improved by ~50% in large clusters (>2000 nodes).

### SIG-service-catalog
- The Originating Identity feature, which lets the broker know which user that performed an action, is now GA.

While the identifier of the inner declaration is in scope, it denotes
the entity declared by the inner declaration.
</p>

<p>
The <a href="#Package_clause">package clause</a> is not a declaration; the package name
does not appear in any scope. Its purpose is to identify the files belonging
to the same <a href="#Packages">package</a> and to specify the default package name for import

  the Pod won't be stuck in the unschedulable pod pool. ([#119290](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119290), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))
- Added apiserver identity to the following metrics: 

- Ensured that the Node Admission plugin to reject CSR requests created by a node identity for the signers `kubernetes.io/kubelet-serving` or `kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-client-kubelet` with a CN starting with `system:node:`, but where the CN is not `system:node:${node-name}`. The feature gate `AllowInsecureKubeletCertificateSigningRequests`...