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- `kubeadm`: added a new "kubeadm config validate" command that can be used to
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- Resolves a spurious "Unknown discovery response content-type" error in client-go discovery requests by tolerating extra content-type parameters in API responses ([#117637](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117637), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Support German cloud for azure disk mount feature ([#50673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50673), [@clement-buchart](https://github.com/clement-buchart))
* Fix overlay2 container disk metrics for Docker and CRI-O ([#54827](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54827), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

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- Fixes a regression in v1beta1 PodDisruptionBudget handling of `strategic merge patch`-type API requests for the `selector` field. Prior to 1.21, these requests would merge `matchLabels` content and replace `matchExpressions` content. In 1.21, patch requests touching the `selector` field started replacing the entire selector. This is consistent with server-side apply and the v1 PodDisruptionBudget behavior, but should not have been changed for v1beta1. ([#...