* kube-apiserver: OIDC authentication now supports requiring specific claims with `--oidc-required-claim=<claim>=<value>` Previously, there was no mechanism for a user to specify claims in the OIDC authentication process that were requid to be present in the ID Token with an expected value. This version now makes it possible to require claims support for the OIDC authentication. It allows users to pass in a `--oidc-required-claims` flag, and `key=value` pairs in the...

        * At Request audit level or higher, an annotation with key "patch.webhook.admission.k8s.io/round_{round idx}_index_{order idx}" get logged with the JSON payload logging the patch sent by a webhook for given request.

- Reverted a kubectl azure auth module change where oidc claim spn: prefix was omitted resulting a breaking behavior with existing Azure AD OIDC enabled api-server ([#87507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87507), [@weinong](https://github.com/weinong)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

- Reverted a kubectl azure auth module change where oidc claim spn: prefix was omitted resulting a breaking behavior with existing Azure AD OIDC enabled api-server ([#87507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87507), [@weinong](https://github.com/weinong)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

* support mount options in azure file ([#54674](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54674), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* kube-apiserver: fixed --oidc-username-prefix and --oidc-group-prefix flags which previously weren't correctly enabled ([#56175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56175), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

*   Improved PodSecurityPolicy admission latency. ([#55643](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55643),[ @tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
*   kube-apiserver: `--oidc-username-prefix` and `--oidc-group-prefix` flags are now correctly enabled. ([#56175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56175),[ @ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

* **When using OIDC authentication and specifying --oidc-username-claim=email, an `"email_verified":true` claim must be returned from the identity provider. ([#36087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36087), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))**

- OIDC authentication will now fail if the username asserted based on a CEL expression config is the empty string.  Previously the request would be authenticated with the username set to the empty string. ([#123568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123568),...

- github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: [v1.0.24 → v1.0.25](https://github.com/coredns/corefile-migration/compare/v1.0.24...v1.0.25)
- github.com/coreos/go-oidc: [v2.2.1+incompatible → v2.3.0+incompatible](https://github.com/coreos/go-oidc/compare/v2.2.1...v2.3.0)
- github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin: [v0.3.4 → v0.4.1](https://github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin/compare/v0.3.4...v0.4.1)

* Updated fluentd-gcp to v3.0.0. ([#60722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60722))
* Ingress glbc is v1.0.0 ([#61302](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61302))
* OIDC authentication is coreos/go-oidc v2 ([#58544](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58544))
* Updated fluentd-gcp updated to v2.0.11. ([#56927](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56927), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))