<pre class="ebnf">
ChannelType = ( "chan" | "chan" "&lt;-" | "&lt;-" "chan" ) ElementType .
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The optional <code>&lt;-</code> operator specifies the channel <i>direction</i>,
<i>send</i> or <i>receive</i>. If a direction is given, the channel is <i>directional</i>,
otherwise it is <i>bidirectional</i>.
A channel may be constrained only to send or only to receive by
<a href="#Assignment_statements">assignment</a> or

*   Load balancer reconciliation now considers NSG rules based not only on Name, but also on Protocol, SourcePortRange, DestinationPortRange, SourceAddressPrefix, DestinationAddressPrefix, Access, and Direction. This change makes it possible to update NSG rules under more conditions.  ([#55752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55752),[ @kevinkim9264](https://github.com/kevinkim9264))

#### New API fields:

  * Bug fixes

    * Fix some false negatives in detection of meaningful conflicts during strategic merge patch with maps and lists. ([#43469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43469), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

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- Fix detection of image filesystem, disk metrics for devicemapper, detection of OOM Kills on 5.0+ linux kernels. ([#92919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92919), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation...

keys if they already exist in the directory specified in the `--cert-dir` option. ([#76390](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76390), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov))
- kubeadm now implements CRI detection for Windows worker nodes ([#78053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78053), [@ksubrmnn](https://github.com/ksubrmnn))

      - [Affected Versions](#affected-versions)
    - [How do I mitigate this vulnerability?](#how-do-i-mitigate-this-vulnerability)
      - [Fixed Versions](#fixed-versions)
    - [Detection](#detection)
      - [Additional Details](#additional-details)
      - [Acknowledgements](#acknowledgements)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-2)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-2)

* Fix some false negatives in detection of meaningful conflicts during strategic merge patch with maps and lists. ([#43469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43469), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API
- We improved readiness detection and smoothing to work well in a larger variety or use cases

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.