- `kubeproxy_conntrack_reconciler_deleted_entries_total` metric can be used to track cumulative sum of conntrack flows cleared by reconciler. ([#130204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130204), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

may be a (possibly <a href="#Labeled_statements">labeled</a>)
<a href="#Fallthrough_statements">"fallthrough" statement</a> to
indicate that control should flow from the end of this clause to
the first statement of the next clause.
Otherwise control flows to the end of the "switch" statement.
A "fallthrough" statement may appear as the last statement of all
but the last clause of an expression switch.
</p>

<p>

This release also contains a number of bug fixes to the feature set. Aspiring plugin authors can look at [sample-exec-plugin](https://github.com/ankeesler/sample-exec-plugin) as a way to get started.

  request. A resource is considered corrupt if it can not be successfully retrieved from the storage due to
  a) transformation error e.g. decryption failure, or b) the object failed to decode. Normal deletion flow is
  attempted first, and if it fails with a corrupt resource error then it triggers unsafe delete.
  In addition, when this feature is enabled, the 'details' field of 'Status' from the LIST response

 - Fix flaws in Azure CSI translation ([#90324](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90324), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* **[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.

 - Fix HPA when using init containers and CRI-O ([#90901](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90901), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith)) [SIG Node]
 - Fix flaws in Azure CSI translation ([#90325](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90325), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* 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))