- The feature gate "SkipReadOnlyValidationGCE" has been removed.  This gate has been active for 2 releases with no reports of issues (and was such a niche thing, we didn't expect any). ([#124210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124210), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

### SIG UI

The migration to the newest version of Angular is still under active development as it is most important thing on the roadmap at the moment. We are getting closer to the new release. We continue fixing bugs and adding other improvements.

### SIG VMWare

### Network
- The official kube-proxy image (used by kubeadm, among other things) is now compatible with systems running iptables 1.8 in "nft" mode, and will autodetect which mode it should use. ([#82966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82966), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

   * Highly specific magic matches get a high priority
   * General magic matches which could trigger a false-positive need
     a low one
   * The priority for containers normally need to be higher than for
     the things they contain, so they don't accidently get detected
     as what's in them
   * For logic too complex to be expressed in a magic match, do the best
     you can here, then provide a Custom Detector for the rest
-->

- Fixed a regression introduced in v1.29 where conntrack entries for UDP connections
  to deleted pods did not get cleaned up correctly, which could (among other things)
  cause DNS problems when DNS pods were restarted. ([#127780](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127780), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

  
  This is a new major release of kustomize, so there are a few backwards-incompatible changes, most of which are rare use cases, bug fixes with side effects, or things that have been deprecated for multiple releases already:
  

the `kubectl debug` [command](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-cli/1441-kubectl-debug/README.md) (it is alpha but your feedback is more than welcome), allows developers to easily debug their Pods inside the cluster. We think this addition is invaluable.  This command allows one to create a temporary container which runs next to the Pod one is trying to examine, but also attaches to the console for interactive troubleshooting.

### Introducing Windows CSI support...

* kubeadm: Add a 'kubeadm config migrate' command to convert old API types to their newer counterparts in the new, supported API types. This is just a client-side tool, it just executes locally without requiring a cluster to be running. You can think about this as an Unix pipe that upgrades config files. ([#64232](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64232), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

- Using `--log-file` is known to be problematic in 1.15. This presents as things being logged multiple times to the same file. The behaviour and details of this issue, as well as some preliminary attempts at fixing it are documented [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/78734#issuecomment-501372131)

### Service