- Support for proxying a request to a peer kube-apiserver if the local apiserver is not able to serve it due to version skew or in the case the requested api is disabled on the local apiserver ([#117740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117740), [@Richabanker](https://github.com/Richabanker))...

*   `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))

s/kubernetes/pull/57902), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

* On cluster provision or upgrade, kubeadm now generates certs and secures all connections to the etcd static-pod with mTLS. This includes the etcd serving cert, the etcd peer cert, and the apiserver etcd client cert. Flags and hostMounts are added to the etcd and apiserver static-pods to load these certs. For connections to etcd, https is now used in favor of http. ([#57415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57415),...

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#117948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117948), [@dlipovetsky](https...

* kubeadm - Ensure the peer port is secured by explicitly setting the peer URLs for the default etcd instance. ([#64988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64988), [@detiber](https://github.com/detiber))
    * kubeadm - Ensure that the etcd certificates are generated using a proper CN
    * kubeadm - Update generated etcd peer certificate to include localhost addresses for the default configuration.

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#117916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117916), [@dlipovetsky](https...

a problem where spurious retransmits in a long-running TCP connection to a service
IP could result in the connection being closed with the error "Connection reset by
peer" ([#74840](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74840), [@anfernee](https://github.com/anfernee))

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- Kubeadm: When adding an etcd peer to an existing cluster, if an error is returned indicating the peer has already been added, this is accepted and a `ListMembers` call is used instead to return the existing cluster. This helps to diminish the exponential backoff when the first AddMember call times out, while still retaining a similar performance when the peer has already been added from a previous call. ([#104134](https://github.com/kubernet...

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#118057](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118057), [@dlipovetsky](https...