- The kubernetes repo now uses Go workspaces.  This should not impact end users at all, but does have impact for developers of downstream projects.  Switching to workspaces caused some breaking changes in the flags to the various k8s.io/code-generator tools.  Downstream consumers should look at staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/kube_codegen.sh to see the changes. ([#123529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123529), [@thockin](https:...

the (correct) version before the update, but instead, the newer version. That meant the new object was not matched by the filter. This was a regression from behavior between cached watches on the server side and uncached watches, and thus broke downstream API clients. ([#46223](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46223), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

* OpenAPI spec is now available in protobuf binary and gzip format (with ETag support) ([#45836](htt...

  error as the real clients; in particular, a failed Get(), Create(), etc, no longer
  returns `nil`. (It now returns a pointer to a zero-valued object, like the real
  clients do.) This will break some downstream unit tests that were testing
  `result == nil` rather than `err != nil`, and in some cases may expose bugs

#### Auth

- The Rancher credential provider has now been removed. This only affects you if you are using the downstream Rancher distro. ([#77099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77099), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))


#### AWS

* vSphere cloud provider: vSphere Storage policy Support for dynamic volume provisioning ([#46176](https://...

## Changelog since v1.21.11

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes error handling in a kubectl method used in downstream packages. ([#108521](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108521), [@heybronson](https://github.com/heybronson)) [SIG CLI]

- Fixes error handling in a kubectl method used in downstream packages. ([#107938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107938), [@heybronson](https://github.com/heybronson)) [SIG CLI]

- Fixes error handling in a kubectl method used in downstream packages. ([#108520](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108520), [@heybronson](https://github.com/heybronson)) [SIG CLI]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed