* The GitRepo volume type is deprecated. To provision a container with a git repo, mount an `EmptyDir` into an `InitContainer` that clones the repo using git, then mount the `EmptyDir` into the Pod's container.
([#63445](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63445), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

  - The schema for the alpha `CSINodeInfo` CRD has been split into `spec` and `status` fields, and new fields `status.available` and `status.volumePluginMechanism` added. Clusters using the previous alpha schema must delete and recreate the CRD using the new schema. ([#70515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70515),...

Here is a list of some of the changes that have been made to kubeadm:

- Kubeadm internal config has been promoted to `v1alpha3`:
  - `v1alpha1` has been removed.
  - `v1alpha3` has split apart `MasterConfiguration` into separate components; `InitConfiguration`, `ClusterConfiguration`, `JoinConfiguration`, `KubeletConfiguration`, and `KubeProxyConfiguration`
  - Different configuration types can be supplied all in the same file separated by `---`.

* - fluentd-gcp runs with a dedicated fluentd-gcp service account ([#54175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54175), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
    * - Stop mounting the host certificates into fluentd's prometheus-to-sd container

- the IP allocator in v1.17.0 can return errors such as `the cluster IP <ip> for service <service-name> is not within the service CIDR <cidr>; please recreate` in the logs of...

- Kubeadm: do not upload kubelet patch configuration into `kube-system/kubelet-config` ConfigMap ([#123107](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123107), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Changelog since v1.18.19

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Reverted the previous fix for portforward cleanup because it introduced a kubelet regression which can lead into segmentation faults. ([#102838](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102838), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

*   Pod preemption has been improved.
    *   Now takes PodDisruptionBudget into account. ([#56178](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56178),[ @bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are multiple new failures in a reconciliation cycle, all the failures are taken into account to compute the back-off. Previously, the back-off kicked in for all types of failures; with this change, only pod failures are taken into account. If the back-off limits exceeds, the job is marked as failed immediately; before this change, the job is marked as failed in the next back-off. ([#114768](https://git...

### OpenStack

SIG-OpenStack updated the OpenStack provider to use newer APIs, consolidated community code into one repository, engaged with the Cloud Provider Working Group to have a consistent plan for moving provider code into individual repositories, improved testing of provider code, and strengthened ties with the OpenStack developer community.

### API-machinery