([#62695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62695), [@CaoShuFeng](https://github.com/CaoShuFeng))
* HTTP transport now uses `context.Context` to cancel dial operations. k8s.io/client-go/transport/Config struct has been updated to accept a function with a `context.Context` parameter. This is a breaking change if you use this field in your code. ([#60012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60012), [@ash2k](https://github.com/ash2k))

### SIG Scheduling

- Callers of `wait.ExponentialBackoffWithContext` now must pass a `ConditionWithContextFunc` to be consistent with the signature and avoid creating a duplicate context. If your condition does not need a context you can use the `ConditionFunc.WithContext()` helper to ignore the context, or use `ExponentialBackoff` directly. ([#115113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115113), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

* Implementers of the cloud provider interface will note the addition of a context to this interface. Trivial code modification will be necessary for a cloud provider to continue to compile. ([#59287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59287), [@cheftako](https://github.com/cheftako))

- github.com/golangplus/bytes: [45c989f](https://github.com/golangplus/bytes/tree/45c989f)
- github.com/golangplus/fmt: [2a5d6d7](https://github.com/golangplus/fmt/tree/2a5d6d7)
- github.com/gorilla/context: [v1.1.1](https://github.com/gorilla/context/tree/v1.1.1)
- github.com/kr/pty: [v1.1.5](https://github.com/kr/pty/tree/v1.1.5)
- rsc.io/quote/v3: v3.1.0
- rsc.io/sampler: v1.3.0
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize: v2.0.3+incompatible

*   `conversion-gen` is now usable in a context without a vendored k8s.io/kubernetes. The Kubernetes core API is removed from `default extra-peer-dirs`. ([#54394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54394),[ @sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

t".Request).{Do,DoRaw,Stream,Watch}` now require callers to pass a `context.Context` as an argument. The context is used for timeout and cancellation signaling and to pass supplementary information to round trippers in the wrapped transport chain. If you don't need any of this functionality, it is sufficient to pass a context created with `context.Background()` to these functions. The `(*"k8s.io/client-go/rest".Request).Context` method is removed now that all methods that execute a request accept...

- `kubectl config set-context` can now set attributes of the current context, such as the current namespace, by passing `--current` instead of a specific context name ([#66140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66140), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixes a bug where images pinned by the container runtime can be garbage collected by kubelet. ([#120053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120053), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG Node]
- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120155), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Use context to check client closed instead of http.CloseNotifier in processing watch request which will reduce 1 goroutine for each request if proto is HTTP/2.x . ([#85408](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85408), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))...