- Api: validation of a `PodSpec` now rejects invalid `ResourceClaim` and `ResourceClaimTemplate` names. For a pod, the name generated for the `ResourceClaim` when using a template also must be valid. ([#116576](https://github.co...

  Users should start using the AzureFile CSI Driver directly for any new volumes. ([#96293](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96293), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Failing Test

- Kubelet: the HostPort implementation in dockershim was not taking into consideration the HostIP field, causing that the same HostPort can not be used with different IP addresses.

- Hashing of KeyID in Logs
  

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the server to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the server to abort the startup.

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  * `api-servers` - add apiserver addresses to the kubeconfig file instead.

backend storage, etcd, has a new release 3.5.0 and the community embraced it. The new release comes with improvements to the Security, performance, monitoring and developer experience. There are numerous bug fixes to lease objects causing memory leaks, and compact operation causing deadlocks and more. A couple of new features are also introduced like the migration to structured logging and build in log rotation. The release comes with a detailed future roadmap to implement a solution to traffic overload....

feature gate `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` to GA and locked it to `true` by default. The kubelet related ConfigMap and RBAC rules are now locked to have a simplified naming `*kubelet-config` instead of the legacy naming `*kubelet-config-x.yy`, where `x.yy` was the version of the control plane. If you have previously used the old naming format with `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap=false`, you must manually copy the config map from `kube-system/kubelet-config-x.yy` to `kube-system/kubelet-config` before...

- Kubeadm: graduated the `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` feature gate to Beta and enabled the feature by default. This implies that 1) for new clusters kubeadm will start using the `kube-system/kubelet-config` naming scheme for the kubelet ConfigMap and RBAC rules, instead of the legacy `kubelet-config-x.yy` naming. 2) during upgrade, kubeadm will only write the new scheme ConfigMap and RBAC objects. To disable the feature you can pass `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap: false` in the kubeadm config...

- Client-go: fix that paged list calls with ResourceVersionMatch set would fail once paging kicked in. ([#107334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107334), [@fasaxc](https://github.com/fasaxc)) [SIG API Machinery]

  either using the flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1 or flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3 API ([#123001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123001), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Graduated support for passing dual-stack `kubelet --node-ip` values when using
  a cloud provider. The feature is now GA and the `CloudDualStackNodeIPs` feature

- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120656), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]