* kubefed init creates a service account for federation controller manager in the federation-system namespace and binds that service account to the federation-system:federation-controller-manager role that has read and list access on secrets in the federation-system namespace.  ([#40392](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40392), [@madhusudancs](https://github.com/madhusudancs))

### **Cluster Federation**
#### Placement Policy
* [alpha] The federation-apiserver now supports a SchedulingPolicy admission controller that enables policy-based control over placement of federated resources. For more information, see [Set up placement policies in Federation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/federation/set-up-placement-policies-federation/).

#### Cluster Selection

management (beyond our initial Federation approach), and preparing
to release Federation for general availability ('GA').

[SIG Multi-cluster]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-federation

### SIG Node

[SIG Node][] is responsible for the components that support the controlled
interactions between pods and host resources, and manage the lifecycle
of pods scheduled on a node.

*   Development of Kubernetes Federation has moved to [github.com/kubernetes/federation](https://github.com/kubernetes/federation). This move out of tree also means that Federation will begin releasing separately from Kubernetes. Impact:
    *   Federation-specific behavior will no longer be included in kubectl
    *   kubefed will no longer be released as part of Kubernetes

- Adds `\livez` for liveness health checking for kube-apiserver. Using the parameter `--maximum-startup-sequence-duration` will allow the liveness endpoint to defer boot-sequence failures for the specified duration period. ([#81969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81969), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- Add flag --lease-reuse-duration-seconds for kube-apiserver to config etcd lease reuse duration. ([#97009](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97009), [@lingsamuel](https://github.com/lingsamuel)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]

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   ([#122830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122830), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))
- Updated `ImageGCMaxAge` behavior in the kubelet to wait the `MaxAge` duration after the kubelet has restarted before garbage collecting.
   ([#123343](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123343), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander))

- Added a new CLI flag `--emulation-forward-compatible`
  Added a new CLI `--runtime-config-emulation-forward-compatible` ([#130354](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130354), [@siyuanfoundation](https://github.com/siyuanfoundation)) [SIG API Machinery, Etcd and Testing]

And since <code>string</code> is identical to <code>string</code>,
this unification step succeeds as well.
Unification of the LHS and RHS of the equation is now finished.
Type inference succeeds because there is only one type equation,
no unification step failed, and the map is fully populated.
</p>

<p>
Unification uses a combination of <i>exact</i> and <i>loose</i>