- Kubeadm: fix a bug where file copy(backup) could not be executed correctly on Windows platform during upgrade ([#117861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117861), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- [`KT-57791`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-57791) Native: Method returning String? leads to exception: Unexpected receiver type: kotlin.String
- [`KT-58437`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58437) K2: Do not use descriptors in KonanSymbols

    - [Additional changes](#additional-changes)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
  - [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)
      - [General Fixes and Reliability](#general-fixes-and-reliability)
  - [Non-user-facing changes](#non-user-facing-changes)
- [v1.11.0-rc.3](#v1110-rc3)
  - [Downloads for v1.11.0-rc.3](#downloads-for-v1110-rc3)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-11)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-11)

    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-2)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-2)
  - [Changelog since v1.20.12](#changelog-since-v12012)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-2)
    - [Feature](#feature)
    - [Failing Test](#failing-test)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-2)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-2)
    - [Added](#added-2)
    - [Changed](#changed-2)
    - [Removed](#removed-2)
- [v1.20.12](#v12012)

- Fixing issue with Winkernel Proxier - ClusterIP Loadbalancers are missing if the ExternalTrafficPolicy is set to Local and the available endpoints are all remoteEndpoints. ([#116000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116000), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network]

* Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

  
  kubelet also ignores an error during opening `/dev/kmsg`.
  This feature gate also allows kube-proxy to ignore an error during setting `RLIMIT_NOFILE`.
  

- Introduces a new metric: `admission_webhook_request_total` with the following labels: name (string) - the webhook name, type (string) - the admission type, operation (string) - the requested verb, code (int) - the HTTP status code, rejected (bool) - whether the request was rejected, namespace (string) - the namespace of the requested resource. ([#103162](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103162), [@rmoriar1](https://github.com/rmoriar1))...

- Fixing issue with Winkernel Proxier - ClusterIP Loadbalancers are missing if the ExternalTrafficPolicy is set to Local and the available endpoints are all remoteEndpoints. ([#115999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115999), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network]

If the list request contained label or field selectors, then the number of remaining items is unknown and the field will be left unset and omitted during serialization. If the list is complete (either because it is not chunking or because this is the last chunk), then there are no more remaining items and this field will be left unset and omitted during serialization. Servers older than v1.15 do not set this field. The intended use of the remainingItemCount is *estimating* the size of a collection....