* **[alpha]** Adds a new cloud-controller-manager binary that may be used for testing the new out-of-core cloudprovider flow.

### Node Components
* **[stable]** Init containers have graduated to GA and now appear as a field.
  The beta annotation value will still be respected and overrides the field
  value.

* Fixes issue where AAD token obtained by kubectl is incompatible with on-behalf-of flow and oidc. ([#86412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86412), [@weinong](https://github.com/weinong))
    * The audience claim before this fix has "spn:" prefix. After this fix, "spn:" prefix is omitted.

   * **NOTE:** Self-hosting will be the default way to host the control plane in the next release, v1.9

* [alpha] A new `phase` subcommand supports performing only subtasks of the full `kubeadm init` flow. Combined with fine-grained configuration, kubeadm is now more easily consumable by higher-level provisioning tools like kops or GKE. ([#356](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/356), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

- Updated `conntrack` reconciler to consider a Service’s target port during cleanup of stale flow entries. ([#130542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130542), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

- Kubelet is no longer able to recover from device manager state file older than 1.20. If the proper recommended upgrade flow is followed, there should be no issue. ([#123398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123398), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]

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a[low : high]
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constructs a substring or slice.
The <i>indices</i> <code>low</code> and
<code>high</code> select which elements of operand <code>a</code> appear
in the result. The result has indices starting at 0 and length equal to
<code>high</code>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<code>low</code>.
After slicing the array <code>a</code>
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- Fixed an issue blocking azure auth to prompt to device code authentication flow when refresh token expires. ([#102063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102063), [@tdihp](https://github.com/tdihp))

* kubectl logs with label selector supports specifying a container name ([#44282](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44282), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

* Fixes issue where AAD token obtained by kubectl is incompatible with on-behalf-of flow and oidc. ([#86412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86412), [@weinong](https://github.com/weinong))
    * The audience claim before this fix has "spn:" prefix. After this fix, "spn:" prefix is omitted.

Initially introduced in 1.18, Kubernetes 1.20 now enables API Priority and Fairness (APF) by default. This allows `kube-apiserver` to [categorize incoming requests by priority levels](https://docs.k8s.io/concepts/cluster-administration/flow-control/).

### IPv4/IPv6 run