all API calls had to fetch key/value stored in secret and use it to authenticate/authorize these operations. With this change API calls receive key/value as a input parameter so they not need to know where and how credentials were stored and fetched. Main goal was to make these API calls CO (Container Orchestrator) agnostic.  ([#60118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60118), [@sbezverk](https://github.com/sbezverk))

* StorageOS volume plugin has been updated to support mount...

In addition, the NodeRestriction admission plugin now prevents kubelets from modifying taints on their Node API objects, making it easier to keep track of which nodes should be in use.

### SIG CLI

    * faster handoff when a leader-elected process is gracefully terminated.
* Make volume binder resilient to races between main schedule loop and async binding operation  ([#72045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72045), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

- Added a new scheduler metric, `pod_scheduling_sli_duration_seconds`,...

- Migrated the main kube-controller-manager binary to use [contextual logging](https://k8s.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/system-logs/#contextual-logging). ([#116529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116529), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

### Etcd v3.5.[0-2] data corruption

Data corruption issue was found in etcd v3.5.0 release that was shipped with 1.22 Kubernetes release. Please read up-to-date [production recommendations for etcd](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/main/CHANGELOG).

## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

* Fix resync goroutine leak in ListAndWatch ([#35672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35672), [@tatsuhiro-t](https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t))

#### client-go

### Etcd v3.5.[0-2] data corruption

Data corruption issue was found in etcd v3.5.0 release that was shipped with 1.22 Kubernetes release. Please read up-to-date [production recommendations for etcd](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/main/CHANGELOG).

## Urgent Upgrade Notes 

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

* Add SNI support to the apiserver ([#35109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35109), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

### SIG Cloud Provider