- Added `UserNamespacesPodSecurityStandards` feature gate to enable user namespace support for Pod Security Standards.
  Enabling this feature will modify all Pod Security Standard rules to allow setting: `spec[.*].securityContext.[runAsNonRoot,runAsUser]`.
  This feature gate should only be enabled if all nodes in the cluster support the user namespace feature and have it enabled.

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  CVE-2021-29923 golang standard library "net" - Improper Input Validation of octal literals in golang 1.16.2 and below standard library "net" results in indeterminate SSRF & RFI vulnerabilities.

- Text logging in Kubernetes components now uses [textlogger](https://pkg.go.dev...

- Starting in 1.31, `container_engine_t` is in the list of allowed SELinux types in the baseline Pod Security Standards profile ([#126165](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126165), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Auth]

### SIG Azure

* The Azure cloud provider now supports standard SKU load balancer and public IP.
`excludeMasterFromStandardLB` defaults to true, which means master nodes are excluded from the standard load balancer. Also note that because all nodes (except master) are added as loadbalancer backends, the standard load balancer doesn't work with the `service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-mode` annotation.

- Added the same information to an init container as a standard container in a pod when using `PodPresets`. ([#71479](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71479), [@soggiest](https://github.com/soggiest))

* Allow disable outbound SNAT when Azure standard load balancer is used together with outbound rules.  ([#75282](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75282), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* client-go: alpha support for out-of-tree exec-based credential providers. For example, a cloud provider could create their own authentication system rather than using the standard authentication provided with Kubernetes. ([#59495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59495), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

### CSI Volume Snapshot graduates to General Availability

CSI Volume Snapshot moves to GA in the 1.20 release. This feature provides a standard way to trigger volume snapshot operations in Kubernetes and allows Kubernetes users to incorporate snapshot operations in a portable manner on any Kubernetes environment regardless of supporting underlying storage providers.