- Fix unsafe JSON construction in a number of locations in the codebase ([#81158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81158), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))

- Kubeadm: update references to legacy artifacts locations, the `ci-cross` prefix has been removed from the version match as it does not exist in the new `gs://k8s-release-dev` bucket. ([#103813](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103813), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

* Search standard KubeConfig file locations when using `kubeadm token` without `--kubeconfig`. ([#62850](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62850), [@...

- Kubeadm: Removed support for mounting /etc/pki as an additional Linux system CA location
  in kube-apisever and kube-controller-manager pods. Instead, it shifted to supporting the
  mounting of /etc/pki/ca-trust and /etc/pki/tls/certs. The locations /etc/ca-certificate,
  /usr/share/ca-certificates, /usr/local/share/ca-certificates, and /etc/ssl/certs continued

* Fix issue where on re-registration...

- Kubelet now exports a `server_expiration_renew_failure` and `client_expiration_renew_failure` metric counter if the certificate rotations cannot be performed. ([#84614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84614), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Node and Release]

- Enabled concurrent log rotation in kubelet. You can now configure the maximum number of concurrent rotations with the `containerLogMaxWorkers` setting, and adjust the monitoring interval with `containerLogMonitorInterval`. ([#114301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114301), [@harshanarayana](https://github.com/harshanarayana))

* Bump GCE metadata proxy to v0.1.9 to pick up security fixes. ([#58221](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58221), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))
* kubeadm now supports CIDR notations in NO_PROXY environment variable ([#53895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53895), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

- New conformance tests added for API Aggregation. ([#63947](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63947), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))
- Moved fluentd-elasticsearch addon images to community controlled location ([#73819](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73819), [@coffeepac](https://github.com/coffeepac))

`system:masters` Group, which was undesired. Executing `kubeadm init phase kubeconfig all` or just `kubeadm init` will now generate the new `super-admin.conf` file. The cluster admin can then decide to keep the file present on a node host or move it to a safe location. `kubadm certs renew` will renew the certificate in `super-admin.conf` to one year if the file exists; if it does not exist a "MISSING" note will be printed. `kubeadm upgrade apply` for this release will migrate this particular node to the two file...