For developers of out-of-tree PostFilter plugins, note that the semantics of NodeToStatusMap are changing: A node with an absent value in the NodeToStatusMap should be interpreted as having an UnschedulableAndUnresolvable status ([#125309](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125309), [@gabesaba](https://github.com/gabesaba)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Feature

     1. Be authorized to make the create or update API request
     2. Be allowed to bind the referenced role, either by already having all of the permissions contained in the referenced role, or by having the "bind" permission on the referenced role.

* Allow having empty paths in *path operations* used with `include_router` and a `prefix`.
    * This allows having a router for `/cats` and all its *path operations*, while having one of them for `/cats`.
    * Now it doesn't have to be only `/cats/` (with a trailing slash).

  
  For developers of out-of-tree PostFilter plugins, note that the semantics of NodeToStatusMap are changing: A node with an absent value in the NodeToStatusMap should be interpreted as having an UnschedulableAndUnresolvable status ([#125306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125306), [@gabesaba](https://github.com/gabesaba)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Feature

  // Minimum consecutive successes for the probe to be considered successful after having failed.
  // Defaults to 1. Must be 1 for liveness and startup. Minimum value is 1.
  // +optional
  optional int32 successThreshold = 5;

  // Minimum consecutive failures for the probe to be considered failed after having succeeded.
  // Defaults to 3. Minimum value is 1.
  // +optional

and a reconciliation mechanism, a new field is being added to `admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.ValidatingWebhookConfiguration` and `admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.MutatingWebhookConfiguration` so that webhooks can explicitly register as having dry-run support. If a dry-run request is made on a resource that triggers a non dry-run supporting webhook, the request will be completely rejected, with "400: Bad Request". Additionally, a new field is being added to the `admission.k8s.io/v1beta1.AdmissionReview`...

  
  For developers of out-of-tree PostFilter plugins, note that the semantics of NodeToStatusMap are changing: A node with an absent value in the NodeToStatusMap should be interpreted as having an UnschedulableAndUnresolvable status ([#125308](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125308), [@gabesaba](https://github.com/gabesaba)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Feature

- Kubeadm: prevent potential hanging of commands such as "kubeadm reset" if the apiserver endpoint is not reachable. ([#84648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84648), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

* Extend TLS timeouts to work around slow arm64 math/big ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))
* Allow ScaleIO volumes to be provisioned without having to first manually create /dev/disk/by-id path on each kubernetes node (if not already present) ([#66174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66174), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))

- Kube-apiserver: Get, GetList and Watch requests that should be served by the apiserver cacher during shutdown will be rejected to avoid a deadlock situation leaving requests hanging. ([#108414](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108414), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))