- Disabled the `SchedulerAsyncAPICalls` feature gate to mitigate a bug where its interaction with asynchronous preemption could degrade `kube-scheduler` performance, especially under high `kube-apiserver` load. ([#134400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134400), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko))

- Introduce CSI Cluster Registration mechanism to ease CSI plugin discovery and allow CSI drivers to customize Kubernetes' interaction with them. ([#67803](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67803), [@saad-ali](https://github.com/saad-ali))

* The [`kubefed` federation bootstrap tool](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/federation/set-up-cluster-federation-kubefed/) has also graduated to beta.
* Interaction with container runtimes is now through the CRI interface, enabling easier integration of runtimes with the kubelet. Docker remains the default runtime via Docker-CRI (which moves to beta).
  * **WARNING:** A [known issue](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44041)

- The SchedulerAsyncAPICalls feature gate has been disabled to mitigate a bug where its interaction with asynchronous preemption in could degrade kube-scheduler performance, particularly under high kube-apiserver load. ([#134401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134401), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Client-go exec credential plugins will pass stdin only when interactive terminal is detected on stdin. This fixes a bug where previously it was checking if **stdout** is an interactive terminal. ([#99654](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99654), [@ankeesler](https://github.com/ankeesler))

  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags
  - Add missing stable labels in template nodes
  - Proactively set instance status to deleting on node deletions
  
  ### Cluster API
  - Migrate interaction with the API from using internal types to using Unstructured
  - Improve tests to work better with constrained resources
  - Add support for node auto-discovery
  - Add support for `--cloud-config`

- github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonreference: [bd5ef7b](https://github.com/xeipuuv/gojsonreference/tree/bd5ef7b)
- github.com/yashtewari/glob-intersection: [v0.2.0](https://github.com/yashtewari/glob-intersection/tree/v0.2.0)
- go.starlark.net: a134d8f
- go.uber.org/mock: v0.4.0
- google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc: v1.5.1



# v1.32.0-alpha.1

    *   Pass all Kubernetes 1.9 e2e test, node e2e test and CRI validation tests.
    *   [Kube-up.sh integration](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-containerd/blob/master/docs/kube-up.md).
    *   [Full crictl integration including CRI verbose option.](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-containerd/blob/master/docs/crictl.md)
    *   Integration with cadvisor to provide better summary api support.

resources such as secrets, a mechanism to store resource encryption keys in external Key Management Systems (KMS) was introduced. This complements the original file-based storage and allows integration with multiple KMS. A Google Cloud KMS plugin was added and will be usable once the Google side of the integration is complete.

* Websocket requests may now authenticate to the API server by passing a bearer token in a websocket subprotocol of the form `base64url.bearer.authorization.k8s....

    * Remove deprecated vagrant kube-up.sh. ([#58118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58118),[@roberthbailey](https://github.com/roberthbailey))