- [SIG Auth](#sig-auth)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle)
    - [SIG Instrumentation](#sig-instrumentation)
    - [SIG Multi-cluster (formerly known as SIG Federation)](#sig-multi-cluster-formerly-known-as-sig-federation)
    - [SIG Node](#sig-node)
    - [SIG Network](#sig-network)
    - [SIG Scalability](#sig-scalability)
    - [SIG Scheduling](#sig-scheduling)

  
  VM Hardware version less than 15 is deprecated as of v1.21. Please consider upgrading the Node VM Hardware version to 15 or above. vSphere CSI Driver recommends Node VM's Hardware version set to at least vmx-15.
  

- Openstack: Do not delete managed LB in case of security group reconciliation errors ([#82264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82264), [@multi-io](https://github.com/multi-io))
- Fix aggressive VM calls for Azure VMSS ([#83102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83102), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Properly manage security groups for loadbalancer services on OpenStack. ([#65373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65373), [@multi-io](https://github.com/multi-io))

* Properly manage security groups for loadbalancer services on OpenStack. ([#65373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65373), [@multi-io](https://github.com/multi-io))
* Reload systemd config files before starting kubelet. ([#65702](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65702), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

* Properly manage security groups for loadbalancer services on OpenStack. ([#65373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65373), [@multi-io](https://github.com/multi-io))
* Add user-agent to audit-logging. ([#64812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64812), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

### SIG Network

For 1.13, the areas of focus were in IPv6, DNS improvements and some smaller items:

## Changelog since v1.27.0

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a regression in 1.27.0 that resulted in "missing metadata in converted object" errors when modifying objects for multi-version custom resource definitions with a conversion strategy of `None`. ([#117305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117305), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Properly manage security groups for loadbalancer services on OpenStack. ([#65373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65373), [@multi-io](https://github.com/multi-io))

### Serverside Apply - Beta 2