The external provider includes all of the above with the additional fixes and features:
- Fix bug to prevent allocation of existing floating IP.
- Fix Cinder authentication bug when OS_DOMAIN_NAME not specified.
- Fix Keystone authentication errors by skipping synchronization for unscoped tokens.
- Fix authentication error for client-auth-plugin

* Deprecate the beta labels for zones ("failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone") and  ([#81431](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81431), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
    * regions ("failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region") in favor of their GA equivalents:
    * "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region".

### Scheduling

  - Opaque Integer Resources (OIRs) are deprecated and will be removed in
    version 1.9. Extended Resources (ERs) are a drop-in replacement for OIRs. You can use
    any domain name prefix outside of the `kubernetes.io/` domain instead of the
    `pod.alpha.kubernetes.io/opaque-int-resource-` prefix.

## Notable Features

### Workloads API (apps/v1beta2)

/kube-dns/{skydns-rc.yaml.base,skydns-rc.yaml.in}`, either substitute one of `__PILLAR__FEDERATIONS__DOMAIN__MAP__` or `{{ pillar['federations_domain_map'] }}` with the corresponding federation name to domain name value or remove them if you do not support cluster federation at this time. If you plan to substitute the parameter with its value, here is an example for `{{ pillar['federations_domain_map'] }}` ([#28132](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28132), [@madhusudancs](https://gi...

    * pv-abc                5Gi        RWO                   Bound     default/claim1                    46s       failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region=VC1,failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone=cluster-1
* fix smb remount issue on Windows ([#73661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73661), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

	* Mechanism of adding `federation domain maps` to kube-dns deployment via `--federations` flag is superseded by adding/updating `federations` key in `kube-system/kube-dns` configmap. If user is using kubefed tool to join cluster federation, adding federation domain maps to kube-dns is already taken care by `kubefed join` and does not need further action.

/kube-dns/{skydns-rc.yaml.base,skydns-rc.yaml.in}`, either substitute one of `__PILLAR__FEDERATIONS__DOMAIN__MAP__` or `{{ pillar['federations_domain_map'] }}` with the corresponding federation name to domain name value or remove them if you do not support cluster federation at this time. If you plan to substitute the parameter with its value, here is an example for `{{ pillar['federations_domain_map'] }}` ([#28132](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28132), [@madhusudancs](https://gi...

  The following configuration options have been added to the `kube-system:kube-dns` ConfigMap:
  ```
  "stubDomains": {
    "acme.local": ["1.2.3.4"]
  },
  ```
  is a map of domain to list of nameservers for the domain. This is used
  to inject private DNS domains into the kube-dns namespace. In the above
  example, any DNS requests for *.acme.local will be served by the
  nameserver 1.2.3.4.
  ```

* Fixes segmentation fault issue with Protobuf library when log entries are deeply nested. ([#77224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77224), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))
* kubeadm: support sub-domain wildcards in certificate SANs ([#76920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76920), [@sempr](https://github.com/sempr))

 - Newly provisioned PVs by EBS plugin will no longer use the deprecated "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" labels. It will use "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region" labels instead. ([#99130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99130), [@ayberk](https://github.com/ayberk))...