The three-digit octal (<code>\</code><i>nnn</i>)
and two-digit hexadecimal (<code>\x</code><i>nn</i>) escapes represent individual
<i>bytes</i> of the resulting string; all other escapes represent
the (possibly multi-byte) UTF-8 encoding of individual <i>characters</i>.
Thus inside a string literal <code>\377</code> and <code>\xFF</code> represent
a single byte of value <code>0xFF</code>=255, while <code>ÿ</code>,

- kubeadm reset: fixed a crash caused by the absence of a configuration file ([#73636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73636), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))
- CoreDNS is now version 1.3.1 ([#73610](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73610), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))

* GCE: Updates GLBC version to 1.0.1 which includes a fix which prevents multi-cluster ingress objects from creating full load balancers. ([#62075](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62075), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

* Fixed a bug which could prevent a provider ID from ever being set for node if an error occurred determining the provider ID when the node was added. ([#87043](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87043), [@zjs](https://github.com/zjs))

* kubectl apply now supports explicitly clearing values not present in the config by setting them to null ([#40630](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40630), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

image requiring credential verification is always pulled if authentication information from an image pull is not yet present, thus enforcing authentication / re-authentication. This means an image pull might be attempted even in cases where a pod requests the `IfNotPresent` image pull policy, and might lead to the pod not starting if its pull policy is `Never` and is unable to present authentication information that led to a previous successful pull of the image it is requesting. ([#128152](https:...

- Prevent unnecessary Endpoints and EndpointSlice updates caused by Pod ResourceVersion change ([#108078](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108078), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]

* kubeadm: prevent overriding of certain kubelet security configuration parameters if the user wished to modify them ([#81903](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81903), [@jfbai](https://github.com/jfbai))

- The OpenAPI version field will now be properly autopopulated without needing other OpenAPI fields present in generic API server code. ([#66411](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66411), [@DirectXMan12](https://github.com/DirectXMan12))

- During device plugin allocation, resources requested by the pod can only be allocated if the device plugin has registered itself to kubelet AND healthy devices are present on the node to be allocated. If these conditions are not sattsfied, the pod would fail with `UnexpectedAdmissionError` error. ([#117738](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117738), [@swatisehgal](https://github.com/swatisehgal)) [SIG Node...