- [**Security**](#security)
      - [Admission Control](#admission-control)
      - [TLS Bootstrapping](#tls-bootstrapping)
      - [Audit Logging](#audit-logging)
      - [Encryption at Rest](#encryption-at-rest)
      - [Node Authorization](#node-authorization)
    - [**Application Autoscaling**](#application-autoscaling)
      - [Horizontal Pod Autoscaler](#horizontal-pod-autoscaler)

- client-go: The `rest.AnonymousClientConfig(*rest.Config) *rest.Config` helper method no longer copies custom `Transport` and `WrapTransport` fields, because those can be used to inject user credentials. ([#75771](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75771), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

- the IP allocator in v1.17.0 can return errors such as `the cluster IP <ip> for service <service-name> is not within the service CIDR <cidr>; please recreate`...

   - In version 1.8, enable this behavior by setting the
     `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `true`.

   - In version 1.9, this behavior will be enabled by default, and must be explicitly
     disabled by setting the `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `false`.

### Cluster Lifecycle

### Taints and Tolerations
* Add a manager to NodeController that is responsible for removing Pods from Nodes tainted with NoExecute Taints. This feature is beta (as the rest of taints) and enabled by default. It's gated by controller-manager enable-taint-manager flag. ([#40355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40355), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

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    *   Clients using older endpoints will be unaffected. This change is only at the REST API level and is independent of the default behavior of particular clients (e.g. this does not affect the default for the kubectl `--cascade` flag).

* client-go: restores behavior of populating the BearerToken field in rest.Config objects constructed from kubeconfig files containing tokenFile config, or from in-cluster configuration. An additional BearerTokenFile field is now populated to enable constructed clients to periodically refresh tokens. ([#71713](https://gi...

- DRA kubelet- Updated logging to use `driverName` instead of `pluginName`, aligning with the rest of the Kubernetes components. ([#132096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132096), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Node and Testing]

* Fixes spurious 0-length API responses. ([#72856](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72856), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))