- Kubeadm: allow the "certs check-expiration" command to not require the existence of the cluster CA key (ca.key file) when checking the expiration of managed certificates in kubeconfig files. ([#106927](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106927), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* support cross resource group for azure file ([#68117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68117), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

  ([#41449](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41449),
  [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Kubelet: Remove the PLEG health check from /healthz, Kubelet will now report
* NodeNotReady on failed PLEG health check.
  ([#41569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41569),
  [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* CRI: upgrade protobuf to v3. Protobuf v2 and v3 are not compatible.

- Upon successful authorization check, an impersonated user is added to the system:authenticated group.
  system:anonymous when impersonated is added to the system:unauthenticated group. ([#94410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94410), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- [`KT-56943`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56943) K/Wasm: implement `@WasmImport` diagnostics
- [`KT-55903`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-55903) K2: False negative CANNOT_CHECK_FOR_ERASED on is-check for type with reified type arguments
- [`KT-56944`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56944) K/Wasm: implement `@JsFun` diagnostics

- Added authorization check support to the CEL expressions of ValidatingAdmissionPolicy via a `authorizer`

### Bug or Regression

- Kubeadm: allow the "certs check-expiration" command to not require the existence of the cluster CA key (ca.key file) when checking the expiration of managed certificates in kubeconfig files. ([#106931](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106931), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Corrects check for non-Azure managed nodes with the Azure cloud provider ([#70135](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70135), [@marc-sensenich](https://github.com/marc-sensenich))

- If `ComponentSLIs` feature gate is enabled, then `/metrics/slis` now becomes available on cloud-controller-manager allowing you to scrape health check metrics. ([#113340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113340), [@Richabanker](https://gi...

* falls back to parse Docker runtime version as generic if not semver ([#54040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54040), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
* BUG FIX: Check both name and ports for azure health probes ([#56918](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56918), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))



# v1.8.5