### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122757](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122757), [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman)) [SIG Network]

 valuable credential. You can create a new Bootstrap Token with
 `kubeadm token create` or make the default token permanently valid by specifying
 `--token-ttl 0` to `kubeadm init`. The default token can later be deleted with
 `kubeadm token delete`.

 - `kubeadm join` now delegates TLS Bootstrapping to the kubelet itself, instead
 of reimplementing the process. `kubeadm join` writes the bootstrap kubeconfig

### Network

* Fixed kube-proxy to work correctly with iptables 1.6.2 and later. ([#60978](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60978), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122815](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122815), [@wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly)) [SIG Network]

* openstack cinder detach problem is fixed if nova is shutdowned ([#56846](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56846), [@zetaab](https://github.com/zetaab))
* Fixed kube-proxy to work correctly with iptables 1.6.2 and later. ([#61734](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61734), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

* Metadata of CustomResources is now pruned and schema-checked during deserialization of requests and when read from etcd. In the former case, invalid meta data is rejected, in the later it is dropped from the CustomResource objects. ([#64267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64267), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- kubeadm now automatically sets the `--pod-infra-container-image` flag when starting the kubelet.

### SIG IBM Cloud

- Fixed a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in `1.27` and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122204), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- Support for go modules in Kubernetes Core.
- Continued preparation for cloud provider extraction and code organization.  The cloud provider code has been moved to kubernetes/legacy-cloud-providers for easier removal later and external consumption.
- Kubectl [get and describe](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/515) now works with extensions

  ```
  --storage-media-type application/json
  ```

  to continue to use `application/json` as the storage media type which can be changed to
  `application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf` at a later time.

## Major updates and release themes

* Kubernetes now supports up to 5,000 nodes via etcd v3, which is enabled by default.