The Cluster API effort is currently undergoing a complete rehaul of the existing codebase, moving off Terraform and into using govmomi directly.

### SIG-windows

  // cannot be resolved, the reference in the input string will be unchanged. Double $$ are reduced
  // to a single $, which allows for escaping the $(VAR_NAME) syntax: i.e. "$$(VAR_NAME)" will
  // produce the string literal "$(VAR_NAME)". Escaped references will never be expanded, regardless
  // of whether the variable exists or not. Cannot be updated.

* Flex drivers by default do not produce metrics. Flex plugins can enable metrics collection by setting  the capability 'supportsMetrics' to true. Make sure the file system can support fs stat to produce metrics in this case. ([#67508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67508), [@brahmaroutu](https://github.com/brahmaroutu))

  can also be scheduled to nodes with `GA` labels. ([#118923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118923), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))
- Updated the generic apiserver library to produce an error if a new API server is configured with support for a data format other than JSON, YAML, or Protobuf. ([#121325](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121325), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery]

 - Pods that are considered for preemption and haven't started don't produce an error log. ([#90241](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90241), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

* Fix kubeadm reset crictl command ([#55717](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55717), [@runcom](https://github.com/runcom))
* Fix code-generators to produce correct code when GroupName, PackageName and/or GoName differ. ([#55614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55614), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Pods that are considered for preemption and haven't started don't produce an error log. ([#87900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87900), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Allow CSI drivers to just run offline expansion tests. ([#102665](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102665), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Changed buildmode of non static Kubernetes binaries to produce position independent executables (PIE). ([#102323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102323), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

- Pods that are considered for preemption and haven't started don't produce an error log. ([#87900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87900), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

- In the course of admitting a single request, the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy plugin will perform no more than one authorization check per unique authorizer expression. All evaluations of identical authorizer expressions will produce the same decision. ([#116443](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116443), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]