- Kubelet might fail to restart if an existing flexvolume mounted pvc contains a large number of directories, or is full. [#75019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75019)

## Urgent Upgrade Notes

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- kube-apiserver:

- Kubelet now cleans up orphaned volume directories automatically ([#95301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95301), [@lorenz](https://github.com/lorenz)) [SIG Node and Storage]

### CVE-2021-25741: Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to
create a container with subpath volume mounts to access files &
directories outside of the volume, including on the host filesystem.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.22.0 - v1.22.1
  - kubelet v1.21.0 - v1.21.4
  - kubelet v1.20.0 - v1.20.10
  - kubelet <= v1.19.14

* It is now posible to use flexVolumes to bind mount directories and files. ([#50596](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50596), [@adelton](https://github.com/adelton))

- Generating informers for packages in directories containing dots in their name is broken. This will be fixed in v1.16.1. ([#82860](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/82860))

   ([#122334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122334), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

* Fixes issue where subpath volume content was deleted during orphaned pod cleanup for Local volumes that are directories (and not mount points) on the root filesystem. ([#72291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72291), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

* Fixes issue where subpath volume content was deleted during orphaned pod cleanup for Local volumes that are directories (and not mount points) on the root filesystem. ([#72291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72291), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

  - Updated encryption configuration file watch logic from using inotify watch to polling at an interval of every minute. Moved the logic to polling because there are variations on file changes (like symlink swapping of directories that contain the encryption config) that the file watch logic would fail to detect. Polling at a set interval prevents any such issues. Note that there is no guarantee on how quickly the API server will process the encryption config. The `apise...

- Kubelet's deprecated `...