- 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]

* The SubjectAccessReview API now passes subresource and resource name information to the authorizer to answer authorization queries. ([#40935](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40935), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Autoscaling

- Improves performance of the node authorizer ([#87696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87696), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Auth]

- Added authorization check support to the CEL expressions of ValidatingAdmissionPolicy via a `authorizer`

- kube-apiserver: Promoted `AuthorizeWithSelectors` feature to beta, which includes field and label selector information from requests in webhook authorization calls. Promoted `AuthorizeNodeWithSelectors` feature to beta, which changes node authorizer behavior to limit requests from node API clients, so that each Node can only get / list / watch its own Node API object, and can also only get / list / watch Pod API objects bound to that node. Clients using kubelet credentials to read other nodes...

* RBAC: all configured authorizers are now checked to determine if an RBAC role or clusterrole escalation (setting permissions the user does not currently have via RBAC) is allowed. ([#56358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56358), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

adds an alpha AuthorizeNodeWithSelectors feature that makes the node authorizer limit requests from node API clients to get / list / watch its own Node API object, and to get / list / watch its own Pod API objects. Clients using kubelet credentials to read other nodes or unrelated pods must change their authentication credentials (recommended), adjust their usage, or grant broader read access independent of the node authorizer. ([#125571](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125571), [@...

[API Aggregation](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/263) has been upgraded to "stable" in Kubernetes 1.10, so you can use it in production. Webhooks have seen numerous improvements, including alpha [Support for self-hosting authorizer webhooks](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/516).

### Auth

- Add node_authorizer_actions_duration_seconds metric that can be used to estimate load to node authorizer. ([#92466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92466), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Instrumentation]

- Adds metrics for the delegated authorizer used by extension APIs that delegate authorization logic to the Kube API server. ([#100339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100339), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))