### SIG Auth

- We will no longer automatically delete all data when a failure is detected during creation of the volume data file on a CSI volume. Now we will only remove the data file and volume path. ([#96021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96021), [@huffmanca](https://github.com/huffmanca)) [SIG Storage]

  // and identical values are considered to be in the same topology.
  // We consider each <key, value> as a "bucket", and try to put balanced number
  // of pods into each bucket.
  // We define a domain as a particular instance of a topology.
  // Also, we define an eligible domain as a domain whose nodes meet the requirements of
  // nodeAffinityPolicy and nodeTaintsPolicy.

  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4985: If you previously included .git in an AWS or Azure URL, we will no longer automatically remove that suffix. You may need to add an extra / to replace the .git for the URL to properly...

## Before Upgrading

* When Response is a `metav1.Status`, it is no longer copied into the audit.Event status. Only the "status", "reason" and "code" fields are set.  For example, when we run `kubectl get pods abc`, the API Server returns a status object:

- Support to enable Hyper-V in GCE Windows Nodes created with `kube-up` ([#105999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105999), [@mauriciopoppe](https://github.com/mauriciopoppe))
- The CPUManager policy options are now enabled, and we introduce a graduation path for the new CPU Manager policy options. ([#105012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105012), [@fromanirh](https://github.com/fromanirh))

58502), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

* Authentication information for OpenStack cloud provider can now be specified as environment variables. When we convert the OpenStack cloud provider to run in an external process, we can now use the kubernetes Secrets capability to inject the OS_* variables. This way we can specify the cloud configuration as a configmap, and specify secrets for the userid/password information. The configmap is mounted as a file, and the secrets are made...

- The etcd client library vendored in v1.16 (github.com/coreos/etcd/clientv3) has a bug where IPv6 IP addresses get incorrectly trimmed to the first occurance of the `:` character. This affects all users of the client library including the kube-apiserver and kubeadm. We are targeting the fix for this bug in v1.16.3. ([#83550](htt...

- The metadata.clusterName field is deprecated. This field has always been unwritable and always blank, but its presence is confusing, so we will remove it next release. Out of an abundance of caution, this release we have merely changed the name in the go struct to ensure any accidental client uses are found before complete removal. ([#108717](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108717), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))...

- [`KT-61686`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-61686) Check and update places in compiler and IDE where we are saying that MPP is experimental/Beta/Alpha
- [`KTIJ-27058`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTIJ-27058) Wizard's KMM application failed to build in 232 AS