- Turn CronJobControllerV2 on by default. ([#98878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98878), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps]
- UDP protocol support for Agnhost connect subcommand ([#98639](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98639), [@knabben](https://github.com/knabben)) [SIG Testing]

* API server authentication now caches successful bearer token authentication results for a few seconds. ([#50258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50258), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixed a bug where `kubectl port-forward`, when used with a Deployment, could connect to a terminating pod even when a running pod is also available. ([#119256](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119256), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG CLI]

- google.golang.org/genproto: f16073e → fe13028
- google.golang.org/grpc: v1.38.0 → v1.40.0
- google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.26.0 → v1.27.1
- gopkg.in/ini.v1: v1.51.0 → v1.62.0
- honnef.co/go/tools: v0.0.1-2020.1.3 → v0.0.1-2020.1.4
- k8s.io/gengo: b6c5ce2 → 485abfe
- k8s.io/klog/v2: v2.9.0 → v2.30.0
- k8s.io/kube-openapi: 9528897 → e816edb
- k8s.io/system-validators: v1.5.0 → v1.6.0

- Kube-apiserver: resolves possible hung connections using konnectivity network proxy with TCP or UDS HTTP connect configurations ([#113862](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113862), [@jkh52](https://github.com/jkh52)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kubeadm: used `ttlSecondsAfterFinished` to automatically clean up the `upgrade-health-check`...