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

- 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. ([#106929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106929), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* 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

- Kubeadm: fix panic in the command "kubeadm certs check-expiration" when "/etc/kubernetes/pki" exists but cannot be read. ([#124124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124124), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

winkernel mode. `--forward-healthcheck-vip`, if specified as true, health check traffic whose destination is service VIP will be forwarded to kube-proxy's healthcheck service. `--root-hnsendpoint-name` specifies the name of the hns endpoint for the root network namespace. This option enables the pass-through load balancers like Google's GCLB to correctly health check the backend services. Without this change, the health check packets is dropped, and Windows node will be considered to be unhealthy by...

### 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]

- The  new flag `etcd-ready-timeout` has been added. It configures a timeout of an additional etcd check performed as part of readyz check. ([#111399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111399), [@Argh4k](https://github.com/Argh4k))

- 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. ([#106930](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106930), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- 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...

- Kubeadm: fix panic in the command "kubeadm certs check-expiration" when "/etc/kubernetes/pki" exists but cannot be read. ([#124124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124124), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]