### OpenStack

on average) and rapid updates to pod configuration should take effect sooner.
  
  A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states.  Operators may use the metrics to track an excess of pods in the orphaned state that may not be completing. ([#113145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113145), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud...

- [Namespaced Brokers](https://svc-cat.io/docs/namespaced-broker-resources/), which enable operators to install a broker into a namespace instead of the cluster level, reached GA.
- The [Service Plan Defaults](https://svc-cat.io/docs/service-plan-defaults/) feature is in alpha and is under active development. This feature gives operators the ability to define defaults for when someone provisions a service.

    * of DaemonSet Pod already exists, it will be replaced.
    * DaemonSet controller will only perform these operations when creating DaemonSet Pods;
    * and those operations will only modify the Pods of DaemonSet, no changes are made to the
    * `.spec.template` of DaemonSet.

* Time for attach/detach retry operations has been decreased from 10-12s to 2-6s ([#56974](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56974), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

### Auth

* Contexts must be named in kubeconfigs. ([#56769](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56769), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- Add `csi_operations_seconds` metric on kubelet that exposes CSI operations duration and status for node CSI operations. ([#98979](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98979), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227)) [SIG Instrumentation and Storage]

      - `docker_operations` -> `docker_operations_total`
      - `docker_operations_latency_microseconds` -> `docker_operations_duration_seconds`
      - `docker_operations_errors` -> `docker_operations_errors_total`
      - `docker_operations_timeout` -> `docker_operations_timeout_total`
      - `network_plugin_operations_latency_microseconds` -> `network_plugin_operations_duration_seconds`

- Kubenet: added HostPort IPv6 support.  HostPortManager: operates only with one IP family, failing if receives port mapping entries with different IP families.  HostPortSyncer: operates only with one IP family, skipping portmap entries with different IP families ([#80854](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80854), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

  The incorrect cost was evident when the result of a function was used in subsequent operations. ([#119807](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119807), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]