</p>

<p>
The return value of <code>recover</code> is <code>nil</code> when the
goroutine is not panicking or <code>recover</code> was not called directly by a deferred function.
Conversely, if a goroutine is panicking and <code>recover</code> was called directly by a deferred function,
the return value of <code>recover</code> is guaranteed not to be <code>nil</code>.

([#64248](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64248), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

### SIG CLI

* You can now use the `base64decode` function in kubectl go templates to decode base64-encoded data, such as `kubectl get secret SECRET -o go-template='{{ .data.KEY | base64decode }}'`. ([#60755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60755), [@glb](https://github.com/glb))

- Fix panic in JSON logging format caused by missing Duration encoder ([#101158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101158), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

- `kubeadm`: improved the logic that checks whether a `systemd` service exists. ([#120514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120514), [@fengxsong](https://github.com/fengxsong))
- `kubeadm`: will now use universal deserializer to decode static pod. ([#120549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120549), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- `kubectl prune v2`: Switched annotation from `contains-group-resources` to `contains-group-kinds`,

  request. A resource is considered corrupt if it can not be successfully retrieved from the storage due to
  a) transformation error e.g. decryption failure, or b) the object failed to decode. Normal deletion flow is
  attempted first, and if it fails with a corrupt resource error then it triggers unsafe delete.
  In addition, when this feature is enabled, the 'details' field of 'Status' from the LIST response

- The `apiserver.latency.k8s.io/decode-response-object` annotation was added to the audit log to record the decoding time. ([#121512](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121512), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))

- Add a helper function to decode scheduler plugin args. ([#80696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80696), [@hex108](https://github.com/hex108))

* Allows changing nodeName in endpoint update. ([#68575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68575), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))
* kube-apiserver would return 400 Bad Request when it couldn't decode a json patch. ([#68346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68346), [@CaoShuFeng](https://github.com/CaoShuFeng))
    * kube-apiserver would return 422 Unprocessable Entity when a json patch couldn't be applied to one object.

* kubelet: fix bug where `runAsUser: MustRunAsNonRoot` strategy didn't reject a pod with a non-numeric `USER`. ([#56711](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56711), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))
* Fix a bug in GCE multizonal clusters where PersistentVolumes were sometimes created in zones without nodes. ([#52322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52322), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))

be removed in a future release. Authorizations for using pod security policy resources should change to reference the `policy` API group after upgrading to 1.11. ([#54933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54933), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))

* Add `--enable-admission-plugins` `--disable-admission-plugins` flags and deprecate `--admission-control`. When using the separate flag, the order in which they're specified doesn't matter.  ([#58123](https://github....