The cri-tools project, which aims to provide consistent tooling for operators to debug and introspect their nodes in production independent of their chosen container runtime, graduated to GA.

    * `kubectl rollout undo` no longer uses the deprecated extensions/v1beta1 rollback API, which means that Events are no longer emitted when rolling back a deployment

debating the need for a debug utility for quite some time already. With the development of [ephemeral containers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/ephemeral-containers/), it became more obvious how we can support developers with tooling built on top of `kubectl exec`. The addition of 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...

* The `batch/v2alpha1.ScheduledJob` was removed. Migrate to `batch/v1beta.CronJob` to continue managing time based jobs.

- Revised the logic for DaemonSet rolling update to exclude nodes if scheduling constraints are not met.

### SIG-cli

SIG CLI focused on implementing the new plugin mechanism, providing a library with common CLI tooling for plugin authors and further refactorings of the code.

### SIG-cloud-provider

* fix: azure disk could not mounted on Standard_DC4s/DC2s instances ([#86612](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86612), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix v1.17.0 regression in reflector relist causing master rolling upgrade to fail for large clusters due to excessive list calls to etcd ([#86824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86824), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* Fix issue where on re-registration of device plugin, `allocatable`...

    * If your config files contains fields with wrong case, the config files will be now invalid.
* GCE: Fixes operation polling to adhere to the specified interval. Furthermore, operation errors are now returned instead of ignored. ([#64630](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64630), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- Revised the logic for DaemonSet rolling update to exclude nodes if scheduling constraints are not met.