- In some cases, a Flex volume resize may leave a PVC with erroneous Resizing condition even after...

Node.  There is an open PR ([#48189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48189)) to resolve this issue, but as this issue also exists in 1.6, and as we do not wish to risk release stability by merging it directly prior to a release without sufficient testing, we have decided to defer merging the PR until the next point release for each minor version ([#48190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48190)).

* Protobuf serialization does not distinguish between `[]` and `null`....

- Added an e2e test to verify that the cluster is not vulnerable to CVE-2021-29923 when using Services with IPs with leading zeros, note that this test is a necessary but not sufficient condition, all the components in the clusters that consume IPs addresses from the APIs MUST interpret them as decimal or discard them. ([#107552](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107552), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

* vSphere cloud provider: vSphere cloud provider code refactoring ([#49164](https://github.com/kubernetes/kub...