- Kubernetes is now built with Go 1.20.4 ([#117773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117773), [@xmudrii](https://github.com/xmudrii)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Allow Azure Disk e2es to use newer topology labels if available from nodes ([#117216](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117216), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- `apiserver_storage_objects` (a newer version of `etcd_object_counts`) is promoted and marked as stable. ([#100082](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100082), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

### Uncategorized

* gitRepo volumes in pods no longer require git 1.8.5 or newer, older git versions are supported too now. ([#62394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62394), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

* Implemented `kubeadm upgrade plan` for checking whether you can upgrade your cluster to a newer version ([#48899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48899), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))
    * Implemented `kubeadm upgrade apply` for upgrading your cluster from one version to an other

* [GCE] Enable by default audit logging truncating backend. ([#68288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68288), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
* kubeadm: fix a possible scenario where kubeadm can pull much newer control-plane images ([#69301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69301), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

## Deprecations and Removals
- `kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta1` has been deprecated, you should update your config to use newer non-deprecated API versions. ([#83276](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83276), [@Klaven](https://github.com/Klaven))

* kubeadm 1.8 now properly handles upgrades from to 1.7.x to newer release in 1.7 branch ([#53338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53338), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

### Failing Test

- Allowed Azure Disk e2es to use newer topology labels if available from nodes. ([#117216](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117216), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- kubeadm commands now print warnings if input YAML documents contain unknown or duplicate fields.
- kubeadm now properly recognizes Docker 18.09.0 and newer, but still treats 18.06 as the default supported version.
- kubeadm now automatically sets the `--pod-infra-container-image` flag when starting the kubelet.

### SIG IBM Cloud

Other notable changes include:
* CoreDNS replaces kube-dns as the default DNS provider