- E2e tests wait for kube-root-ca.crt to be populated in namespaces for use with projected service account tokens, reducing delays starting those test pods and errors in the logs. ([#108860](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108860), [@eddiezane](https://github.com/eddiezane)) [SIG Testing]

* The DaemonSet controller, its integration tests, and its e2e tests, have been updated to use the apps/v1 API. ([#59883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59883), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns))
* Fix image file system stats for windows nodes ([#59743](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59743), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- The `NetworkPolicyLegacy` test suite (deprecated in `v1.21`) has now officially been removed in favor of the new table driven e2e tests. ([#118915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118915), [@astoycos](https://github.com/astoycos))

    *   Bug fixes in validation test suites.
*   [beta] [cri-containerd](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-containerd): CRI implementation for containerd is now v1.0.0-beta.0, [[@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu)]
    *   This release supports Kubernetes 1.9+ and containerd v1.0.0+.
    *   Pass all Kubernetes 1.9 e2e test, node e2e test and CRI validation tests.

</p>

<p>
In other words, the switch expression is treated as if it were used to declare and
initialize a temporary variable <code>t</code> without explicit type; it is that
value of <code>t</code> against which each case expression <code>x</code> is tested
for equality.
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<p>
In a case or default clause, the last non-empty statement

* kubeadm: JoinConfiguration now houses the discovery options in a nested Discovery structure, which in turn has a couple of other nested structures to house more specific options (BootstrapTokenDiscovery and FileDiscovery) ([#67763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67763), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

* Conformance tests may now include disruptive tests. If you are running tests against a live cluster, consider skipping those tests tagged as `Disruptive` to avoid non-test workloads being impacted. Be aware, skipping any conformance tests (even disruptive ones) will make the results ineligible for consideration for the CNCF Certified Kubernetes program. ([#82664](https://g...

- Introduced end-to-end tests to verify component invariant metrics across the entire test suite. ([#133394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133394), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder))
- Introduced new kubelet metrics for the Ensure Secret Pulled Images KEP, including:

- The conformance tests:
  - Services should serve multiport endpoints from pods
  - Services should serve a basic endpoint from pods
  were only validating the API objects, not performing any validation on the actual Services implementation.

### Cluster Lifecycle

#### kubeadm

* [beta] A new `upgrade` subcommand allows you to automatically upgrade a self-hosted cluster created with kubeadm. ([#296](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/296), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))