* `kubectl create [secret | configmap] --from-file` now works on Windows with fully-qualified paths ([#63439](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63439), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  Kubernetes was previously detecting that the image filesystem was split, even when that was not really the case ([#128344](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128344), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed an issue in the kubelet that showed when writeable layers and read-only layers were at different paths within the same mount.

- The `kubectl plugin list` command now displays discovered plugin paths in the same order as they are found in a user's PATH variable. ([#70443](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70443), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))

- Added --authorization-always-allow-paths to components doing delegated authorization to exclude certain HTTP paths like /healthz from authorization. ([#67543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67543), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Paths containing backsteps (for example, "../bar") are no longer allowed in hostPath volume paths, or in volumeMount subpaths ([#47290](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47290), [@jhorwit2](https://github.com/jhorwit2))

*   The Azure SDK is upgraded to v11.1.1. ([#54971](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54971),[ @itowlson](https://github.com/itowlson))
*   You can now create Windows mount paths  ([#51240](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51240),[ @andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Kubeadm: do not allow empty `--config` paths to be passed to `kubeadm kubeconfig user` ([#105649](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105649), [@navist2020](https://github.com/navist2020))

* Paths containing backsteps (for example, "../bar") are no longer allowed in hostPath volume paths, or in volumeMount subpaths ([#47290](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47290), [@jhorwit2](https://github.com/jhorwit2))

- Added `/sys/devices/virtual/powercap` to default masked paths. It avoids the potential security risk that the ability to read these files may offer a power-based sidechannel attack against any workloads running on the same kernel. ([#125970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125970), [@carlory](h...

### Bug or Regression