verifying keys, by enabling the Alpha `ExternalServiceAccountTokenSigner` feature gate and specifying `--service-account-signing-endpoint`. The flag value can either be the location of a Unix domain socket on a filesystem, or be prefixed with an @ symbol and name a Unix domain socket in the abstract socket namespace. ([#128190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128190), [@HarshalNeelkamal](https://github.com/HarshalNeelkamal)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Etcd, Instrumentation, Node,...

## Known Issues

- If kubelet plugin registration for a driver fails, kubelet will not retry. The driver must delete and recreate the driver registration socket in order to force kubelet to attempt registration again. Restarting only the driver container may not be sufficient to trigger recreation of the socket, instead a pod restart may be required. ([#71487](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/71487))

- Kube-controller-manager...

- Add --permit-address-sharing flag to `kube-apiserver` to listen with `SO_REUSEADDR`. While allowing to listen on wildcard IPs like 0.0.0.0 and specific IPs in parallel, it avoids waiting for the kernel to release socket in `TIME_WAIT` state, and hence, considerably reducing `kube-apiserver` restart times under certain conditions. ([#93861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93861), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

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

// map : Charleston Road Registry Inc.
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/map.html
map

// market : Dog Beach, LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/market.html
market

// marketing : Binky Moon, LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/marketing.html
marketing

// markets : Dog Beach, LLC

  conntrack entries, sockets. This is achieved by reducing the `TIME-WAIT` state
  of the connection to 1 second, instead of the defaults 60 seconds. This allows
  kubelet to free the socket, and free conntrack entry and ephemeral port associated. ([#115143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115143), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- Kubeadm: get k8s CI version markers from k8s infra bucket ([#98836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98836), [@hasheddan](https://github.com/hasheddan)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

- kubectl supports copying files with wild card ([#72641](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72641), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
- kubeadm now attempts to detect an installed CRI by its usual domain socket, so that `--cri-socket` can be omitted from the command line if Docker is not used and there is a single CRI installed. ([#69366](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69366), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

This flag's value is taken from the kubeadm configuration `criSocket` field or the `--cri-socket` CLI flag. Automatically add a missing URL scheme to the user configuration in memory, but warn them that they should also update their configuration on disk manually. During `kubeadm upgrade apply/node` mutate the `/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env` file on disk and the `kubeadm.alpha.kubernetes.io/cri-socket` annotation Node object if needed. These automatic actions are temporary and will be removed...

* changes timeout value in csi plugin from 15s to 2min which fixes the timeout issue ([#79529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79529), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* kubeadm: fix the bug that "--cri-socket" flag does not work for `kubeadm reset` ([#79498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79498), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))