- Fixed attachment of AWS volumes that have just been detached. ([#83567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83567), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
- Fix possible fd leak and closing of dirs when using openstack ([#82873](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82873), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))

- E2e framework: added `--report-complete-ginkgo` and `--report-complete-junit` parameters. They work like `ginkgo --json-report <report dir>/ginkgo/report.json --junit-report <report dir>/ginkgo/report.xml`. ([#115678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115678), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Testing]

* Fix possible fd leak and closing of dirs in doSafeMakeDir  ([#79534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79534), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))

    - [DNS](#dns)
    - [DNS Autoscaler](#dns-autoscaler)
    - [Cluster Autoscaler](#cluster-autoscaler-1)
    - [Cluster Load Balancing](#cluster-load-balancing)
    - [etcd Empty Dir Cleanup](#etcd-empty-dir-cleanup)
    - [Fluentd](#fluentd)
    - [Heapster](#heapster)
    - [Registry](#registry)
  - [External Dependency Version Information](#external-dependency-version-information)

- E2e.test: removed the  `--viper-config` flag. If you were previously using this to pass flags to `e2e.test` via a file, you will need to pass them directly on the command line, e.g. `e2e.test --e2e-output-dir`. ([#102598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102598), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

### **Node**

*   The kubelet `--network-plugin-dir` flag is removed. This flag was deprecated in version 1.7, and is replaced with `--cni-bin-dir`. ([#53564](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53564),[ @supereagle](https://github.com/supereagle))

* The alpha `--init-config-dir` flag has been removed. Instead, use the `--config` flag to reference a kubelet configuration file directly. ([#57624](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57624), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

* Fix possible fd leak and closing of dirs when using openstack ([#82873](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82873), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))

- 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))

  - apiserver-advertise-address / apiserver-bind-port: use either localAPIEndpoint from InitConfiguration or controlPlaneEndpoint from ClusterConfiguration.
  - cluster-name: use clusterName from ClusterConfiguration
  - cert-dir: use certificatesDir from ClusterConfiguration ([#94879](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94879), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]