specified on CreateVolume/DeleteVolume, ControllerPublishVolume/ControllerUnpublishVolume, and NodePublishVolume/NodeUnpublishVolume operations. Before this change 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...

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* The `system:node` role is no longer automatically granted to the `system:nodes` group in new clusters. The role gives broad read access to resources, including secrets and configmaps. Use the `Node` authorization mode to authorize the nodes in new clusters. To continue providing the `system:node` role to the members of the `system:nodes` group, create an installation-specific `ClusterRoleBinding` in the installation. ([#49638](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49638))...

  - [beta] Added ability to authenticate/authorize access to the Kubelet API ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubelet-authentication-authorization/)) ([kubernetes/features#89](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/89))
- **AWS**

* Retry Pod/RC updates in kubectl rolling-update ([#27509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27509), [@janetkuo](https://github.com/janetkuo))
* AWS kube-up: Authorize route53 in the IAM policy ([#27794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27794), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))