- Specifying the KUBE_TEST_REPO environment variable when e2e tests are executed will instruct the test infrastructure to load that image from a location within the specified repo, using a predefined pattern. ([#93510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93510), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Testing]

* In case kubeadm can't access the current Kubernetes version remotely and fails to parse the git-based version it falls back to a static predefined value of k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/constants.CurrentKubernetesVersion. ([#72454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72454), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov))

*   You can now use a new supported service annotation for AWS clusters, `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-negotiation-policy`, which lets you specify which [predefined AWS SSL policy](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-security-policy-table.html) you would like to use. ([#54507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54507),[ @micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))...