- The DaemonSet, Deployment, ReplicaSet, and StatefulSet kinds
  are now in the apps/v1beta2 group and version.

- The apps/v1beta2 group version adds a Scale subresource for the StatefulSet
kind.

- All kinds in the apps/v1beta2 group version add a corresponding conditions
  kind.

#### Behavioral Changes

 - For all kinds in the API group version, a spec.selector default value is no longer

    * Adds support for 1.5.x series of Kubernetes
    * Introduces a tactic for keeping templates in sync with upstream eliminating template drift
    * Adds CNI support to the Juju Charms
    * Adds durable storage support to the Juju Charms
    * Introduces an e2e Charm layer for repeatable testing efforts and validation of clusters

### **Internationalization**

* Add Traditional Chinese translation for kubectl ([#46559](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46559), [@warmchang](https://github.com/warmchang))

* Add Japanese translation for kubectl ([#46756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46756), [@girikuncoro](https://github.com/girikuncoro))

* Add CRI log parsing library at pkg/kubelet/apis/cri/logs ([#55140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55140), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Add extra-args configs for scheduler and controller-manager to kubernetes-master charm ([#55185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55185), [@Cynerva](https://github.com/Cynerva))

    *  - `kubernetes` plugin adds metrics to measure kubernetes control plane latency.
    *  -  the `health` plugin now includes the `lameduck` option by default, which waits for a duration before shutting down.
* Kubeadm now includes CoreDNS version 1.6.5 ([#85108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85108), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))

  - Add build support for ARM64
  
  ### AliCloud
  - Add missing daemonsets and replicasets to ALI example cluster role
  
  ### Apache CloudStack
  - Add support for Apache CloudStack
  
  ### AWS
  - Regenerate list of EC2 instances
  - Fix pricing endpoint in AWS China Region
  
  ### Azure
  - Add optional jitter on initial VMSS VM cache refresh, keep the refreshes spread over time

- Fix: add azure disk migration support for CSINode ([#88014](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88014), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix: add non-retriable errors in azure clients ([#87941](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87941), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Deduplicate PATH items when reading plugins. ([#69089](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69089), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

- Adds CEL expressions to v1alpha1 AuthenticationConfiguration. ([#121078](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121078), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Testing]

- Add mechanism to load simple sniffer class into fluentd-elasticsearch image ([#92853](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92853), [@cosmo0920](https://github.com/cosmo0920))
- Add support for Portworx plugin to csi-translation-lib. Alpha release
  
  Portworx CSI driver is required to enable migration.