- When registering with a 1.17+ API server, MutatingWebhookConfiguration...

* Restrict redirect following from the apiserver to same-host redirects, and ignore redirects in some cases. ([#66516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66516), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

  - Clients should reload the token from disk periodically (once per minute is recommended) to ensure they continue to use a valid token. `k8s.io/client-go` version v11.0.0+ and v0.15.0+ reload tokens automatically.

* Do not remove shutdown nodes from api-server for vSphere. ([#70291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70291), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
    * Fixes volume detach from shutdown nodes.

- Apimachinery: Pretty printed JSON and YAML output is now indented consistently. ([#105466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105466), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### SIG GCP

- Added tolerations for Stackdriver Logging and Metadata Agents. ([#69737](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69737), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))

- CRD `x-kubernetes-validations` rules now support the CEL functions: `isSorted`, `sum`, `min`, `max`, `indexOf`, `lastIndexOf`, `find` and `findAll`. ([#108312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108312), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- OIDC authentication will now fail if the username asserted based on a CEL expression config is the empty string.  Previously the request would be authenticated with the username set to the empty string. ([#123568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123568), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

    * - Update debian-iptables image for CVEs.
    * - Change chain name to IP-MASQ to be compatible with the
    * pre-injected masquerade rules.
* Fix VMWare VM freezing bug by reverting [#51066](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51066) ([#67825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67825), [@nikopen](https://github.com/nikopen))

- Fixes regression in CPUManager that had the (rare) possibility to release exclusive CPUs in app containers inherited from init containers. ([#90419](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90419), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska)) [SIG Node]