- API Server Tracing now includes a variety of new spans and span events. ([#113172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113172), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, Instrumentation, Network, Node and Scheduling]

### **Network**

#### **IPv6**

*   [alpha] IPv6 support has been added. Notable IPv6 support details include:
    *   Support for IPv6-only Kubernetes cluster deployments. **<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Note:</span>** This feature does not provide dual-stack support.
    *   Support for IPv6 Kubernetes control and data planes.
    *   Support for Kubernetes IPv6 cluster deployments using kubeadm.

status reflects the aggregate status across all underlying cluster
jobs.

#### [alpha] Federated Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)

Federated HPAs are similar to the traditional Kubernetes HPAs, except
that they span multiple clusters. Creating a Federated HPA targeting
multiple clusters ensures that cluster-level autoscalers are
consistently deployed across those clusters, and dynamically managed

    * The audience claim before this fix has "spn:" prefix. After this fix, "spn:" prefix is omitted.
* Fix LoadBalancer rule checking so that no unexpected LoadBalancer updates are made ([#85990](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85990), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

  * iscsi storage plugin: Fix dangling session when using multiple target portal addresses. ([#46239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46239), [@mtanino](https://github.com/mtanino))


  * Fix log spam due to unnecessary status update when node is deleted. ([#45923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45923), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

- github.com/posener/complete: [v1.1.1](https://github.com/posener/complete/tree/v1.1.1)
- github.com/ryanuber/columnize: [9b3edd6](https://github.com/ryanuber/columnize/tree/9b3edd6)
- github.com/sean-/seed: [e2103e2](https://github.com/sean-/seed/tree/e2103e2)
- github.com/smartystreets/assertions: [b2de0cb](https://github.com/smartystreets/assertions/tree/b2de0cb)

    * The audience claim before this fix has "spn:" prefix. After this fix, "spn:" prefix is omitted.
* Fixes an issue with kubelet-reported pod status on deleted/recreated pods. ([#86320](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86320), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- github.com/posener/complete: [v1.1.1](https://github.com/posener/complete/tree/v1.1.1)
- github.com/ryanuber/columnize: [9b3edd6](https://github.com/ryanuber/columnize/tree/9b3edd6)
- github.com/sean-/seed: [e2103e2](https://github.com/sean-/seed/tree/e2103e2)
- github.com/subosito/gotenv: [v1.2.0](https://github.com/subosito/gotenv/tree/v1.2.0)
- github.com/willf/bitset: [d5bec33](https://github.com/willf/bitset/tree/d5bec33)

* Run one etcd storage compaction per default interval of 5min. Do not run one for each resource and each CRD. This fixes the compaction log spam and reduces load on etcd. ([#68557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68557), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- github.com/posener/complete: [v1.1.1](https://github.com/posener/complete/tree/v1.1.1)
- github.com/ryanuber/columnize: [9b3edd6](https://github.com/ryanuber/columnize/tree/9b3edd6)
- github.com/sean-/seed: [e2103e2](https://github.com/sean-/seed/tree/e2103e2)
- github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/spf13/cast: [v1.3.1](https://github.com/spf13/cast/tree/v1.3.1)