#### client-go:

Before updating to 1.9, you are strongly recommended to back up your etcd data. Consult the installation procedure you are using (kargo, kops, kube-up, kube-aws, kubeadm etc) for specific advice.

compare specifically to context errors as needed. A future release will make the `ErrWaitTimeout` error private and callers must use `Interrupted()` instead. If you are returning `ErrWaitTimeout` from your own methods, switch to creating a location specific `cause err` and pass it to the new method `wait.ErrorInterrupted(cause) error` which will ensure `Interrupted()` returns true for your loop. 
  
  The `wait.NewExponentialBackoffManager` and `wait.NewJitteringBackoffManager` functions have...

### Auth

- CEL authorizer checks no longer raise runtime errors. Calls to "check" will always return a decision object and the authorization error (if any) can be accessed within expressions using the new decision methods "errored" and "error". ([#118804](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118804), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Changelog since v1.21.11

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes error handling in a kubectl method used in downstream packages. ([#108521](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108521), [@heybronson](https://github.com/heybronson)) [SIG CLI]

* The generic RESTClient type (`k8s.io/client-go/rest`) no longer exposes `LabelSelectorParam` or `FieldSelectorParam` methods - use `VersionedParams` with `metav1.ListOptions` instead.  The `UintParam` method has been removed.  The `timeout` parameter will no longer cause an error when using `Param()`. ([#48991](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48991), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))...

### Feature

- Extend AWS azToRegion method to support Local Zones ([#90874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90874), [@Jeffwan](https://github.com/Jeffwan)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Bug or Regression

- The watch API endpoints prefixed with `/watch` are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. These standard method for watching resources (supported since v1.0) is to use the list API endpoints with a `?watch=true` parameter. All client-go clients have used the parameter method since v1.6.0. ([#65147](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65147), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    * https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.13.4 
    * https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.13.3
* Add name validation for dynamic client methods in client-go ([#75072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75072), [@lblackstone](https://github.com/lblackstone))