* Fix incorrect conflict errors applying strategic merge patches to resources. ([#43871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43871), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix init container status reporting when active deadline is exceeded. ([#46305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46305), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))

- github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2: [v2.2.0 → v2.3.0](https://github.com/cespare/xxhash/compare/v2.2.0...v2.3.0)
- github.com/chzyer/readline: [2972be2 → v1.5.1](https://github.com/chzyer/readline/compare/2972be2...v1.5.1)
- github.com/cncf/udpa/go: [c52dc94 → 269d4d4](https://github.com/cncf/udpa/compare/c52dc94...269d4d4)

* [Federation][kubefed]: Use StorageClassName for etcd pvc ([#46323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46323), [@marun](https://github.com/marun))
* Restrict active deadline seconds max allowed value to be maximum uint32 ([#46640](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46640), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

- If the user specifies an invalid timeout in the request URL, the request will be aborted with an HTTP 400.
  - in cases where the client specifies a timeout in the request URL, the overall request deadline is shortened now since the deadline is setup as soon as the request is received by the apiserver. ([#96901](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96901), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.  Callers should switch to using `wait.PollUntilContextCancel`, `wait.PollUntilContextTimeout`, or `wait.ExponentialBackoffWithContext` as appropriate.
  
  `PollWithContext(Cancel|Deadline)` will no longer return `ErrWaitTimeout` - use the `Interrupted(error) bool` helper to replace checks for `err == ErrWaitTimeout`, or compare specifically to context errors as needed. A future release will make the `ErrWaitTimeout` error private...

- If the user specifies an invalid timeout in the request URL, the request will be aborted with an HTTP 400.
  - If the user specifies a timeout in the request URL that exceeds the maximum request deadline allowed by the apiserver, the request will be aborted with an HTTP 400. ([#96061](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96061), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery, Network and Testing]

- Kubelet: the following dockershim related flags are also removed along with dockershim `--experimental-dockershim-root-directory`, `--docker-endpoint`, `--image-pull-progress-deadline`, `--network-plugin`, `--cni-conf-dir`, `--cni-bin-dir`, `--cni-cache-dir`, `--network-plugin-mtu`. ([#106907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106907), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))