###  Introduced KMS v2

Introduce KMS v2alpha1 API to add performance, rotation, and observability improvements. Encrypt data at rest (ie Kubernetes `Secrets`) with DEK using AES-GCM instead of AES-CBC for kms data encryption. No user action is required. Reads with AES-GCM and AES-CBC will continue to be allowed. See the guide [Using a KMS provider for data encryption](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/kms-provider/) for more information.

encrypting transformer for storing secrets encrypted at rest ([#41939](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41939), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

  * Add secretbox and AES-CBC encryption modes to at rest encryption. AES-CBC is considered superior to AES-GCM because it is resistant to nonce-reuse attacks, and secretbox uses Poly1305 and XSalsa20. ([#46916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46916), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))...

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. 10000 */
    String search_engine_heartbeat_interval = "search_engine.heartbeat_interval";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. aes */
    String APP_CIPHER_ALGORISM = "app.cipher.algorism";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. ___change__me___ */
    String APP_CIPHER_KEY = "app.cipher.key";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. sha256 */

* Deprecated Binding objects in 1.7. ([#47041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47041), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- '`kubeadm`: added validation to verify that the `CertificateKey` is a valid hex
  encoded AES key.' ([#120064](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120064), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))
- A customizable `OrderedScoreFuncs()` function was introduced. Out-of-tree plugins 

- Exposed `rest.DefaultServerUrlFor` function. ([#118055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118055), [@timofurr...