- `--log-flush-frequency` had no effect in several commands or was missing. Help and warning texts were not always using the right format for a command (`add_dir_header` instead of `add-dir-header`). Fixing this included cleaning up flag handling in component-base/logs: that package no longer adds flags to the global flag sets. Commands which want the klog and `--log-flush-frequency` flags must explicitly call `logs.AddFlags`; the new...

- Kubeadm: Strictly enabled only the supported klog flags, disallowing previously available but unrecommended options. This means that hidden flags about klog (including `--alsologtostderr`, `--log-backtrace-at`, `--log-dir`, `--logtostderr`, `--log-file`, `--log-file-max-size`, `--one-output`, `--skip-log-headers`, `--stderrthreshold` and `--vmodule`) are no longer allowed to be used. ([#125179](https://github.com/kubernet...

### Structured logging

SIG Instrumentation standardized the structure of log messages and references to Kubernetes objects. Structured logging makes parsing, processing, storing, querying and analyzing logs easier. New methods in the klog library enforce log message structure.

### EndpointSlices are now enabled by default

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- A v2-level info log will be added, which will output the details of the pod being preempted, including victim and preemptor ([#117214](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117214), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi)) [SIG Scheduling]

- github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: [v0.9.1 → v0.10.1](https://github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate/compare/v0.9.1...v0.10.1)
- github.com/golang/glog: [v1.0.0 → v1.1.0](https://github.com/golang/glog/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0)
- google.golang.org/grpc: v1.54.0 → v1.56.3
- google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.30.0 → v1.31.0

### Removed
_Nothing has changed._



# v1.28.3

* `framework.ExpectNoError` no longer logs the error and instead relies on using the new `log.Fail` as Gomega fail handler. ([#80253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80253), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
* Audit events now log the existence and patch of mutating webhooks.  ([#77824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77824), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

* no ([#75820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75820), [@YoubingLi](https://github.com/YoubingLi))
* Use stdlib to log stack trace when a panic occurs ([#75853](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75853), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))
* Fixes a NPD bug on GCI, so that it disables glog writing to files for log-counter ([#76211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76211), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

### Kubernetes release cadence change

- github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: [v0.1.0 → v0.10.1](https://github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate/compare/v0.1.0...v0.10.1)
- github.com/golang/glog: [v1.0.0 → v1.1.0](https://github.com/golang/glog/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0)
- github.com/golang/protobuf: [v1.5.2 → v1.5.3](https://github.com/golang/protobuf/compare/v1.5.2...v1.5.3)

 * rather than formatting first by calling <code>toString()</code>.
 *
 *
 * @deprecated Use SLF4J directly
 */
@Deprecated
public interface Log {
    /**
     * @return true if the <b>debug</b> error level is enabled
     */
    boolean isDebugEnabled();

    /**
     * Send a message to the user in the <b>debug</b> error level.
     *