### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Build etcd image v3.5.12 ([#123069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123069), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni)) [SIG API Machinery and Etcd]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Fix a panic when using invalid output format in kubectl create secret command ([#107345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107345), [@rikatz](https://github.com/rikatz)) [SIG CLI]
- Fixes a rare race condition handling requests that timeout ([#107460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107460), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Restore --verify-only function in code generation wrappers. ([#123261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123261), [@skitt](https://github.com/skitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Regenerate protobuf code to fix CVE-2021-3121 ([#100514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100514), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Node]

### Feature

    - [Stable](#stable)
    - [Beta](#beta)
    - [CLI Improvements](#cli-improvements)
  - [API Changes](#api-changes)
  - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-1)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)
    - [Apps](#apps)
    - [Auth](#auth)
    - [CLI](#cli)
    - [Cloud Provider](#cloud-provider)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle-1)
    - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation)

    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-10)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-10)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-10)
  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)
  - [Major Themes](#major-themes)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery)
    - [SIG-autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling)
    - [SIG-Azure](#sig-azure)
    - [SIG-cli](#sig-cli)
    - [SIG-cloud-provider](#sig-cloud-provider)
    - [SIG-cluster-lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle)

  - [WARNING: etcd backup strongly recommended](#warning-etcd-backup-strongly-recommended)
  - [Introduction to 1.9.0](#introduction-to-190)
  - [Major themes](#major-themes)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)
    - [Apps](#apps)
    - [Auth](#auth)
    - [AWS](#aws)
    - [Azure](#azure)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle)
    - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation)
    - [Network](#network)

### SIG API Machinery

[SIG API Machinery][] is responsible for all aspects of the API server: API registration and discovery, generic API CRUD semantics, admission control, encoding/decoding, conversion, defaulting, persistence layer (etcd), OpenAPI, third-party resources, garbage collection, and client libraries.

  - [Urgent Upgrade Notes](#urgent-upgrade-notes)
    - [(No, really, you MUST do this before you upgrade)](#no-really-you-must-do-this-before-you-upgrade)
  - [Major Themes](#major-themes)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle)
    - [SIG Instrumentation](#sig-instrumentation)
    - [SIG Network](#sig-network)

### Bug or Regression

- Added jitter factor to lease controller that better smears load on kube-apiserver over time. ([#101652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101652), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]