* API fields previously capable of storing and returning either `[]` and `null` via JSON API requests (for example, the Endpoints `subsets` field) can now store only `null` when created using the protobuf content-type or stored in etcd using protobuf serialization (the default in 1.6+). JSON API clients should tolerate `null` values for such fields, and treat `null` and `[]` as equivalent in meaning unless specifically documented otherwise...

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [v5.6.0+incompatible → v4.12.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/v5.6.0...v4.12.0)
- github.com/google/cel-go: [v0.16.0 → v0.16.1](https://github.com/google/cel-go/compare/v0.16.0...v0.16.1)

### Removed
_Nothing has changed._

.kubeconfig

.tags*

# Version file for dockerized build
.dockerized-kube-version-defs

# Web UI
/www/master/node_modules/
/www/master/npm-debug.log
/www/master/shared/config/development.json

# Karma output
/www/test_out

# precommit temporary directories created by ./hack/verify-generated-docs.sh and ./hack/lib/util.sh
/_tmp/
/doc_tmp/

# Test artifacts produced by Prow/kubetest2 jobs

- E2e framework: added `--report-complete-ginkgo` and `--report-complete-junit` parameters. They work like `ginkgo --json-report <report dir>/ginkgo/report.json --junit-report <report dir>/ginkgo/report.xml`. ([#115678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115678), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Testing]

- github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: [v0.9.1 → v1.0.2](https://github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate/compare/v0.9.1...v1.0.2)
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [v5.6.0+incompatible → v4.12.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/v5.6.0...v4.12.0)
- github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify: [v1.6.0 → v1.7.0](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0)

- Protobuf serialization of metav1.MicroTime timestamps (used in `Lease` and `Event` API objects) has been corrected to truncate to microsecond precision, to match the documented behavior and JSON/YAML serialization. Any existing persisted data is truncated to microsecond when read from etcd. ([#111936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111936), [@haoruan](https://github.com/haoruan))

- The API server now detects and fails on startup if there are conflicting issuers between...

- Kubeadm: enhanced the "patches" functionality to be able to patch kubelet config files containing `v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration`. The new patch target is called `kubeletconfiguration` (e.g. patch file `kubeletconfiguration+json.json`).This makes it possible to apply node specific KubeletConfiguration options during `init`, `join` and `upgrade`, while the main `KubeletConfiguration` that is passed to `init` as part of the `--config` file can still act as the global stored in...