* Use Cluster Autoscaler 0.5.1, which fixes an issue in Cluster Autoscaler 0.5 where the cluster may be scaled up unnecessarily. Also the status of Cluster Autoscaler is now exposed in kube-system/cluster-autoscaler-status config map. ([#43745](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43745), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))

that they span multiple clusters. Creating a Federated HPA targeting
multiple clusters ensures that cluster-level autoscalers are
consistently deployed across those clusters, and dynamically managed
to ensure that autoscaling can occur optimially in all clusters,
within a set of global constraints on the total number of replicas
permitted across all clusters.  If replicas are not

`system:aggregate-to-edit` role no longer includes write access to the Endpoints API. For new Kubernetes 1.22 clusters, the `edit` and `admin` roles will no longer include that access in newly created Kubernetes 1.22 clusters. This will have no affect on existing clusters upgrading to Kubernetes 1.22. To retain write access to Endpoints in the aggregated `edit` and `admin` roles for newly created 1.22 clusters, refer to https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/29025. ([#103704](https://github.com/kubernet...

- For GCE cluster provider, fix bug of not being able to create internal type load balancer for clusters with more than 1000 nodes in a single zone. ([#89902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89902), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Scalability]

away from the usage of the word `master` in labels and taints. For new clusters, the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` will no longer be added to control plane nodes, only the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane` will be added. For clusters that are being upgraded to 1.24 with `kubeadm upgrade apply`, the command will remove the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` from existing control plane nodes. For new clusters, both the old taint `node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule` and...

      - [Horizontal Pod Autoscaler](#horizontal-pod-autoscaler)
    - [**Cluster Lifecycle**](#cluster-lifecycle)
      - [kubeadm](#kubeadm-1)
      - [Cloud Provider Support](#cloud-provider-support)
    - [**Cluster Federation**](#cluster-federation)
      - [Placement Policy](#placement-policy)
      - [Cluster Selection](#cluster-selection)
    - [**Instrumentation**](#instrumentation)

### Cluster Lifecycle

[https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213) sig-cluster-lifecycle has decided to phase out the cluster/ directory over the next couple of releases in favor of deployment automations maintained outside of the core repo and outside of kubernetes orgs. ([@kubernetes/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/teams/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc))

    * Remove deprecated ContainerVM support from GCE kube-up.  ([#58247...

- `-- kube-controller-manager`
  `--node-cidr-mask-size-ipv4 int32`     Default: 24. Mask size for IPv4 node-cidr in dual-stack cluster.
`--node-cidr-mask-size-ipv6 int32`     Default: 64. Mask size for IPv6 node-cidr in dual-stack cluster.

    These 2 flags can be used only for dual-stack clusters. For non dual-stack clusters, continue to use  `--node-cidr-mask-size` flag to configure the mask size.

- Update cri-tools to [v1.20.0](https://gi...