- 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...

- 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...

    * The apiserver also now takes an optional flag "--maximum-startup-sequence-duration". This allows you to explicitly define an upper bound on the apiserver startup sequences before healthz begins to fail. By keeping the kubelet liveness initial delay short, this can enable quick kubelet recovery as soon as we have a boot sequence which has not completed in our expected time frame, despite lack of completion from longer boot sequences (like RBAC). Kube-apiserver...

- 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]...

of a resource (for example, `apps/v1 deployments`) and be called when any other version of that resource is modified (for example `extensions/v1beta1 deployments`). This allows new versions of a resource to be handled by admission webhooks without needing to update every webhook to understand the new version. See the API documentation for the `matchPolicy: Equivalent` option in MutatingWebhookConfiguration and ValidatingWebhookConfiguration types. ([#78135](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78135),...

- Added etcd_object_count metrics for CustomResources. ([#65983](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65983), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
- The OpenAPI version field will now be properly autopopulated without needing other OpenAPI fields present in generic API server code. ([#66411](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66411), [@DirectXMan12](https://github.com/DirectXMan12))