- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/issues/4731: Remove a potential build-time side-effect in ConfigMapGenerator and SecretGenerator, which loaded values from the local environment under some circumstances, breaking kustomize build's side-effect-free promise. While this behavior was never intended, we deprecated it and are announcing it as a breaking change since it existed for a long time. See also the Eschewed...

- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Update debian-iptables and hyperkube-base images to include CVE fixes. ([#67365](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67365), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))
* Immediately close the other side of the connection when proxying. ([#67288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67288), [@MHBauer](https://github.com/MHBauer))

## Changelog since v1.10.11

### Other notable changes

* Updates defaultbackend to 1.5 ([#69381](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69381), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))
* Immediately close the other side of the connection when proxying. ([#67288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67288), [@MHBauer](https://github.com/MHBauer))

- Support server-side dry-run in kubectl with --dry-run=server for commands including apply, patch, create, run, annotate,...

[Sig API Machinery]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-api-machinery

### SIG Apps

### SIG CLI

- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Server-side Apply graduates to GA

  - true/strict - perform validation and error the request on any invalid fields in the ojbect. It will attempt to perform server-side validation if it is enabled on the apiserver, otherwise it will fall back to client-side validation.