- The `LC_ALL` and `LC_MESSAGES` env vars can now be used to set desired locale for `kubectl` while keeping `LANG` unchanged. ([#69500](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69500), [@m1kola](https://github.com/m1kola))

- kubeadm: removed preflight check for nsenter on Linux nodes
  kubeadm: added preflight check for `losetup` on Linux nodes. It's required by kubelet for keeping a block device opened. ([#129450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129450), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

    * Adds support for 1.5.x series of Kubernetes
    * Introduces a tactic for keeping templates in sync with upstream eliminating template drift
    * Adds CNI support to the Juju Charms
    * Adds durable storage support to the Juju Charms

- `apiserver_admiss...

- The DRA device taints and toleration feature received a separate feature gate, `DRADeviceTaintRules`, which controlled support for `DeviceTaintRules`. This allowed disabling it while keeping `DRADeviceTaints` enabled so that tainting via `ResourceSlices` continued to work. ([#135068](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135068), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Node, Scheduling and Testing]...

- For `kubeadm`: remove the ClusterStatus API from v1beta3 and its management in the kube-system/kubeadm-config ConfigMap. This method of keeping track of what API endpoints exists in the cluster was replaced (in a prior release) by a method to annotate the etcd Pods that `kubeadm` creates in "stacked etcd" clusters. The following CLI sub-phases are deprecated and are now a NO-OP: for `kubeadm...

- Enabled use of pods with volumes and user namespaces. The feature gate was renamed...

- Ceph RBD volume plugin now does not use any keyring (`/etc/ceph/ceph.client.lvs01cinder.keyring`, `/etc/ceph/ceph.keyring`, `/etc/ceph/keyring`, `/etc/ceph/keyring.bin`) for authentication. Ceph user credentials must be provided in PersistentVolume objects and referred Secrets. ([#75588](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75588), [@smileusd]...

* Clusters with GCE feature 'DiskAlphaAPI' enabled can now dynamically provision GCE PD volumes. ([#59447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59447), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

* Added `keyring` parameter for Ceph RBD provisioner. ([#58287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58287), [@madddi](https://github.com/madddi))

[alpha] CRI validation testing, which provides a test framework and a suite of tests to validate that the CRI server implementation meets all the requirements. This allows the CRI runtime developers to verify that their runtime conforms to CRI, without needing to set up Kubernetes components or run Kubernetes end-to-end tests. ([docs](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/sig-node/cri-validation.md) and [release notes](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-tools/releases/tag/v0.1))...