- The NodeShutdown taint is now supported for Azure. ([#68033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68033), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

### SIG CLI

  
  Multi vCenter support is deprecated as of v1.21. If you have a Kubernetes cluster spanning across multiple vCenter servers, please consider moving all k8s nodes to a single vCenter Server. vSphere CSI Driver does not support Kubernetes deployment spanning across multiple vCenter servers.
  

  * OOM parser uses kmsg
  * Add hugepages support
  * Add CRI-O support

* Sharing a PID namespace between containers in a pod is disabled by default in version 1.8. To enable for a node, use the `--docker-disable-shared-pid=false` kubelet flag. Be aware that PID namespace sharing requires Docker version greater than or equal to 1.13.1.

* Fix issues related to the eviction manager.

The <i>capacity</i> is a measure of that extent: it is the sum of
the length of the slice and the length of the array beyond the slice;
a slice of length up to that capacity can be created by
<a href="#Slice_expressions"><i>slicing</i></a> a new one from the original slice.
The capacity of a slice <code>a</code> can be discovered using the
built-in function <a href="#Length_and_capacity"><code>cap(a)</code></a>.
</p>

<p>

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes CSI volume attachment scaling issue by using informers. ([#91307](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91307), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]

* StatefulSets now include an alpha scaling feature accessible by setting the `spec.podManagementPolicy` field to `Parallel`.  The controller will not wait for pods to be ready before adding the other pods, and will replace deleted pods as needed.  Since parallel scaling creates pods out of order, you cannot depend on predictable membership changes within your set. ([#44899](https://github.com/kuberne...

- Added CEL expressions to `v1alpha1 AuthenticationConfiguration`. ([#121078](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121078), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))
- Added Windows support for InPlace Pod Vertical Scaling feature. ([#112599](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112599), [@fabi200123](https://github.com/fabi200123)) [SIG Autoscaling, Node, Scalability, Scheduling and Windows]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Kubeadm: change the default image repository for CI images from 'gcr.io/kubernetes-ci-images' to 'gcr.io/k8s-staging-ci-images' ([#97087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97087), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/logger: [v0.1.0 → v0.2.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/compare/logger/v0.1.0...logger/v0.2.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/tracing: [v0.5.0 → v0.6.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/compare/tracing/v0.5.0...tracing/v0.6.0)
- github.com/Microsoft/go-winio: [fc70bd9 → v0.4.15](https://github.com/Microsoft/go-winio/compare/fc70bd9...v0.4.15)

* CRI: respect container's stopping timeout. ([#44998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44998), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fix problems with scaling up the cluster when unschedulable pods have some persistent volume claims. ([#44860](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44860), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))