## Changelog since v1.8.1

### Other notable changes

* Allow for configuring etcd hostname in the manifest ([#54403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54403), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Allow standard flags in client-gen. ([#53999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53999), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Added --authorization-always-allow-paths to components doing delegated authorization to exclude certain HTTP paths like /healthz from authorization. ([#67543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67543), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Allow for configuration of CoreDNS replica count ([#85837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85837), [@pickledrick](https://github.com/pickledrick)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Allow to monitor client-go DNS resolver latencies via `rest_client_dns_resolution_duration_seconds` Prometheus metric. ([#115357](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115357), [@mfojtik](https://github.com/mfojtik))

 - Fixes a regression in 1.17 that dropped cache-control headers on API requests ([#90468](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90468), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]
 - Provides a fix to allow a cluster in a private Azure cloud to authenticate to ACR in the same cloud. ([#90425](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90425), [@DavidParks8](https://github.com/DavidParks8)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

    * configuration scripts to allow configuration of signing duration of
    * certificates issued via the Certificate Signing Request API.

  - [Changelog since v1.21.4](#changelog-since-v1214)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information)
    - [CVE-2021-25741: Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access](#cve-2021-25741-symlink-exchange-can-allow-host-filesystem-access)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-8)
    - [Feature](#feature-6)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-8)

* GCP: allow a master to not include a metadata concealment firewall rule (if it's not running the metadata proxy). ([#58104](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58104), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))

### Feature

- Kubernetes is now built with Go 1.20.13 ([#122713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122713), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Allow deletion of pods that use raw block volumes on node reboot ([#122211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122211), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Node and Storage]

* The Kubelet's deprecated `--allow-privileged` flag now defaults to true. This enables users to stop setting `--allow-privileged` in order to transition to `PodSecurityPolicy`. Previously, users had to continue setting `--allow-privileged`, because the default was false. ([#63442](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63442), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))