- kube-apiserver: `--service-account-max-token-expiration` can now be used in combination with an external token signer `--service-account-signing-endpoint`, as long as the `--service-account-max-token-expiration` is not longer than the external token signer's max expiration. ([#129816](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129816), [@sambdavidson](https://github.com/sambdavidson)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

- The certificate signer no longer accepts ca.key passwords via the `CFSSL_CA_PK_PASSWORD` environment variable. This capability was not prompted by user request, never advertised, and recommended against in the security audit. ([#84677](https://github.com/kubernetes/kub...

- Updated the control plane's trust anchor publisher to create and manage a new ClusterTrustBundle object, associated with the `kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-serving` X.509 certificate signer. This ClusterTrustBundle contains a PEM bundle in its payload that you can use to verify kube-apiserver serving certificates. ([#127326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127326), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG API Machinery,...

- Migrated the bootstrap signer controller and the token cleaner controller (within `kube-controller-manager`) to use [contextual logging](https://k8s.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/system-logs/#contextual-logging). ([#113464](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113464),...

## Changelog since v1.22.14

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112401), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG API Machinery]

- consumers of the 'certificatesigningrequests/approval' API must now have permission to 'approve' CSRs for the specific signer requested by the CSR. More information on the new signerName field and the required authorization can be found at https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/certificate-signing-requests#authorization ([#88246](https://github.com/kube...

For detailed release notes on the three alpha features from SIG AWS, please refer to the following Changelogs:

* fix azure disk not available issue when device name changed ([#57549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57549), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Allow kubernetes components to react to SIGTERM signal and shutdown gracefully. ([#57756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57756), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- Kubeadm: add support for certificate chain validation. When using kubeadm in external CA mode, this allows an intermediate CA to be used to sign the certificates. The intermediate CA certificate must be appended to each signed certificate for this to work correctly. ([#97266](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97266), [@robbiemcmichael](https://github.com/robbiemcmichael)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Allow kubernetes components to react to SIGTERM signal and shutdown gracefully. ([#57756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57756), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))