A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states.  Operators may use the metrics to track an excess of pods in the orphaned state that may not be completing. ([#113145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113145), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud Provider, Node and Testing]

- DRA: Starting with Kubernetes 1.34, the alpha-level `resource.k8s.io/admin-access` label has been updated to `resource.kubernetes.io/admin-access`. Admins using the alpha feature and updating from 1.33 can set both labels, upgrade, then remove `resource.k8s.io/admin-access` when no downgrade is going to happen anymore. ([#131996](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131996), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh))...

  - If the custom resource does not participate the spec/status convention, the metadata.generation of the CR increments when there is any change to the CR, except for changes to the metadata.

- Revised the kubelet API Authorization with new subresources, that allow finer-grained authorization checks and access control for kubelet endpoints.
  Provided you enable the `KubeletFineGrainedAuthz` feature gate, you can access kubelet's `/healthz` endpoint by granting the caller `nodes/helathz` permission in RBAC.

- The `system:aggregate-to-edit` role no longer includes write access to the Endpoints API. For new Kubernetes 1.22 clusters, the `edit` and `admin` roles will no longer include that access in newly created Kubernetes 1.22 clusters. This will have no affect on existing clusters upgrading to Kubernetes 1.22. To retain write access to Endpoints in the aggregated `edit` and `admin` roles for newly created 1.22 clusters, refer to https://github.co...

functions, and on making security functions more understandable for users.

RBAC [cluster role aggregation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/#aggregated-clusterroles), introduced in 1.9, graduated to stable status with no changes in 1.11, and [client-go credential plugins](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authentication/#client-go-credential-plugins)  graduated to beta status, while also adding support for obtaining TLS credentials from an external...

* Fix user visible files creation for windows ([#62375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62375), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Resolves forbidden error when the `daemon-set-controller` cluster role access `controllerrevisions` resources. ([#62146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62146), [@frodenas](https://github.com/frodenas))

CustomResourceDefinition](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/migrate-third-party-resource/).

* [beta] User-provided apiservers can be aggregated (served along with) the rest of the Kubernetes API. See [Extending the Kubernetes API with the aggregation layer](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/api-extension/apiserver-aggregation/), [Configure the aggregation layer](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/configure-aggregation-layer/), and [Setup an...

    *   Pod Security Policy can now manage access to specific FlexVolume drivers.([#53179](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53179),[ @wanghaoran1988](https://github.com/wanghaoran1988))
    *   To prevent unauthorized access to CHAP Secrets, you can now set the secretNamespace storage class parameters for the following volume types:

  - [Changelog since v1.21.4](#changelog-since-v1214)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information)
    - [CVE-2021-25741: Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access](#cve-2021-25741-symlink-exchange-can-allow-host-filesystem-access)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-8)
    - [Feature](#feature-6)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-8)
    - [Other (Cleanup or Flake)](#other-cleanup-or-flake-1)