* Remove metadata agent config maps in favor of command line flags.
    * Update the metadata agent's liveness probe to a new /healthz handler.
    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.

* Reduced excessive logging from fluentd-gcp-scaler. ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))
* locking fix in vSphere cleanup function ([#68388](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68388), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))

- Migrate `proxy/ipvs/proxier.go` logs to structured logging. ([#97796](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97796), [@JornShen](https://github.com/JornShen))
- Migrate `staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry` logs to structured logging. ([#98287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98287), [@lala123912](https://github.com/lala123912))

- Locking the feature custom profiling in kubectl debug to true. ([#127187](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127187), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

#### GKE
* New GKE certificates controller. ([#41160](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41160), [@pipejakob](https://github.com/pipejakob))

#### vSphere

- Migrated `pod-security-admission` to use [contextual logging](https://k8s.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/system-logs/#contextual-logging). ([#114471](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114471), [@Namanl2001](https://github.com/Namanl2001)) [SIG Apps and Auth]

// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/boo.html
boo

// book : Amazon Registry Services, Inc.
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/book.html
book

// booking : Booking.com B.V.
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/booking.html
booking

// bosch : Robert Bosch GMBH
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/bosch.html
bosch

// bostik : Bostik SA

* Adding TerminationGracePeriodSeconds to the test framework API ([#82170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82170), [@vivekbagade](https://github.com/vivekbagade))

- kubeadm: treat non-fatal errors as warnings when doing reset ([#80862](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80862), [@drpaneas](https://github.com/drpaneas))
- kubeadm: prevent PSP blocking of upgrade image prepull by using a non-root user ([#77792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77792), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Fixed `JobTrackingWithFinalizers` that:
  - was declaring a job finished before counting all the created pods in the status
  - was leaving pods with finalizers, blocking pod and job deletions
   `JobTrackingWithFinalizers` is still disabled by default. ([#109486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109486), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))