- github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: [v1.1.0 → v1.2.1](https://github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.1)
- github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify: [v1.7.0 → v1.9.0](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/compare/v1.7.0...v1.9.0)
- github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2: [v2.7.0 → v2.9.0](https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor/compare/v2.7.0...v2.9.0)

- Kubeadm: enabled the --experimental-watch-progress-notify-interval flag for etcd and set it to 5s. The flag specifies an interval at which etcd sends watch data to the kube-apiserver. ([#111383](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111383), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

* The `NodeRestriction` admission plugin limits the `Node` and `Pod` objects a kubelet can modify. In order to be limited by this admission plugin, kubelets must use credentials in the `system:nodes` group, with a username in the form `system:node:<nodeName>`. Such kubelets will only be allowed to modify their own `Node` API object, and only modify `Pod` API objects that are bound to their node. ([#45929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45929), [@liggit...

* Add user-agent to audit-logging. ([#64812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64812), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))
* kubeadm: notify the user of manifest upgrade timeouts ([#65164](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65164), [@xlgao-zju](https://github.com/xlgao-zju))

- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [v5.6.0+incompatible → v4.12.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/v5.6.0...v4.12.0)
- github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify: [v1.6.0 → v1.7.0](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0)
- github.com/go-logr/logr: [v1.2.4 → v1.3.0](https://github.com/go-logr/logr/compare/v1.2.4...v1.3.0)

* The `NodeRestriction` admission plugin limits the `Node` and `Pod` objects a kubelet can modify. In order to be limited by this admission plugin, kubelets must use credentials in the `system:nodes` group, with a username in the form `system:node:<nodeName>`. Such kubelets will only be allowed to modify their own `Node` API object, and only modify `Pod` API objects that are bound to their node. ([#45929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45929), [@liggit...

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- github.com/felixge/httpsnoop: [v1.0.1 → v1.0.3](https://github.com/felixge/httpsnoop/compare/v1.0.1...v1.0.3)
- github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify: [v1.4.9 → v1.6.0](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/compare/v1.4.9...v1.6.0)
- github.com/go-kit/log: [v0.1.0 → v0.2.0](https://github.com/go-kit/log/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0)

* Fix concurrent map access panic ([#65331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65331), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * Don't watch .mount cgroups to reduce number of inotify watches
    * Fix NVML initialization race condition
    * Fix brtfs disk metrics when using a subdirectory of a subvolume

Prior to 1.17 and for existing nodes created by `kubeadm init` where kubelet client certificate rotation is desired, you must modify `/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf` to point to the PEM symlink for rotation: