- The apimachinery util/net function used to detect the bind address `ResolveBindAddress()` takes into consideration global IP addresses on loopback interfaces when 1) the host has default routes, or 2) there are no global IPs on those interfaces in order to support more complex network scenarios like BGP Unnumbered RFC 5549 ([#95790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95790), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))...

* `kubectl patch` now supports `--dry-run`. ([#60675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60675), [@timoreimann](https://github.com/timoreimann))
* The global flag `--match-server-version` is now global.  `kubectl version` will respect it. ([#63613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63613), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

* [alpha] Make locally attached (non-network attached) storage available as a persistent volume source. For more information, see [Storage Volumes - local](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#local).

#### Volume Plugins

  // between the number of matching pods in the target topology and the global minimum.
  // The global minimum is the minimum number of matching pods in an eligible domain
  // or zero if the number of eligible domains is less than MinDomains.
  // For example, in a 3-zone cluster, MaxSkew is set to 1, and pods with the same
  // labelSelector spread as 2/2/1:
  // In this case, the global minimum is 1.
  // +-------+-------+-------+

makes it possible to set requests and limits on ephemeral local storage resources. In addition, you can now create [Local Persistent Storage](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/121), which enables PersistentVolumes to be created with locally attached disks, and not just network volumes.

On the Persistent Volumes side, this release [Prevents deletion of Persistent Volume Claims that are used by a pod](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/498) and [Persistent Volumes...

    * <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/dependencies/global-dependencies/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Tutorial - Dependencies - Global Dependencies</a>.

* 📝 Add FastAPI monitoring blog post to External Links. PR [#2324](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/2324) by [@louisguitton](https://github.com/louisguitton).

multiple clusters ensures that cluster-level autoscalers are
consistently deployed across those clusters, and dynamically managed
to ensure that autoscaling can occur optimially in all clusters,
within a set of global constraints on the total number of replicas
permitted across all clusters.  If replicas are not
required in some clusters due to low system load or insufficient quota

- Add instruction to setup "Application Default Credentials" to run GCE Windows e2e tests locally. ([#81337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81337), [@YangLu1031](https://github.com/YangLu1031))

- Timeouts set in ListOptions for clients are also be respected locally ([#70998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70998), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

kubelet, log verbosity and flush frequency can also be configured via the configuration file and not just via command line flags. In other commands (kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager), the flags are listed in the "Logs flags" group and not under "Global" or "Misc". The type for `-vmodule` was made a bit more descriptive (`pattern=N,...` instead of `moduleSpec`). ([#106090](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106090), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture,...