- Fix PermissionDenied issue on SMB mount for Windows ([#99550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fix bug that would let the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale down despite at least one metric being unavailable/invalid ([#99514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99514), [@mikkeloscar](https://github.com/mikkeloscar)) [SIG Apps and Autoscaling]

*   You can now use a new supported service annotation for AWS clusters, `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-negotiation-policy`, which lets you specify which [predefined AWS SSL policy](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-security-policy-table.html) you would like to use. ([#54507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54507),[ @micahhausler](htt...

### Azure

* Adds a new `kubeadm config` command that lets users tell `kubeadm upgrade` what kubeadm configuration to use and lets users view the current state. ([#50980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50980), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

- TaintNodeByCondition has been moved to Beta and is enabled by default.
- Scheduler throughput has been improved by ~50% in large clusters (>2000 nodes).

### SIG-service-catalog
- The Originating Identity feature, which lets the broker know which user that performed an action, is now GA.

- Added a new command line argument `--interactive` to kubectl. The new command line argument lets a user confirm deletion requests per resource interactively. ([#114530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114530), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

The StorageProtection feature, which prevents deletion of PVCs while Pods are still using them and of PVs while still bound to a PVC, is now generally available, and volume resizing, which lets you increase size of a volume after a Pod restarts is now beta, which means it is on by default.

New alpha features include:

* Remove Job also from .status.active for Replace strategy ([#35420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35420), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Let release_1_5 clientset include multiple versions of a group ([#35471](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35471), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

  - warn - perform server-side validation and warn on any invalid fields (but ultimately let the request succeed by dropping any invalid fields from the object). If validation is not available on the server, perform no validation.

Every system administrator or Kubernetes user has been in the same boat regarding setting up and using Kubernetes: disable swap space. With the release of Kubernetes 1.22, *alpha* support is available to run nodes with swap memory. This change lets administrators opt in to configuring swap on Linux nodes, treating a portion of block storage as additional virtual memory.

### Cluster-wide seccomp defaults