2. CacheSize type was changed from int32 to *int32. This allows defaulting logic to differentiate between cases where users explicitly supplied 0 vs. not supplied any value.
   3. KMS Provider's endpoint (path to Unix socket) is now validated when the EncryptionConfiguration files is loaded. This used to be handled by the GRPCService.

### Other notable changes

- Gives the right error message when using `kubectl delete` a wrong resource. ([#83825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83825), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0))

  - `v1alpha3` has split apart `MasterConfiguration` into separate components; `InitConfiguration`, `ClusterConfiguration`, `JoinConfiguration`, `KubeletConfiguration`, and `KubeProxyConfiguration`
  - Different configuration types can be supplied all in the same file separated by `---`.
- Improved CRI handling
  - crictl is no longer required in docker-only setups.
  - Better detection of installed CRI.
  - Better output for image pull errors.

#### Defaults

 - The default spec.updateStrategy for the StatefulSet and DaemonSet kinds is
 RollingUpdate for the apps/v1beta2 group version. You can explicitly set
 the OnDelete strategy, and no strategy auto-conversion is applied to
 replace default values.

 - As mentioned in [Behavioral Changes](#behavioral-changes), selector
 defaults are disabled.

 - The default spec.revisionHistoryLimit for all applicable kinds in the

[Auditing](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/audit/) is now enabled behind a featureGate in kubeadm. A user can supply their own audit policy with configuration option as well as a place for the audit logs to live. If no policy is supplied a default policy will be provided. The default policy will log all Metadata level policy logs. It is the example provided in the documentation. ([#59067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59067), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))...

  - `PodStatus.Resize` status describes the state of a requested Pod resize.
  - `PodStatus.ResourcesAllocated` describes node resources allocated to Pod.
  - `PodStatus.Resources` describes node resources applied to running containers by CRI.
  - `UpdateContainerResources` CRI API now supports both Linux and Windows. ([#102884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102884), [@vinaykul](https://github.com/vinaykul))

### AWS

- Renames the timeout field for the DelegatingAuthenticationOptions to TokenRequestTimeout and set the timeout only for the token review client. Previously the timeout was also applied to watches making them reconnecting every 10 seconds. ([#101102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101102), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

* The `NodeRestriction` admission plugin now prevents kubelets from modifying/removing taints applied to their Node API object. ([#63167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63167), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    * kube-apiserver would return 422 Unprocessable Entity when a json patch couldn't be applied to one object.
* remove unused ReplicasetControllerOptions ([#68121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68121), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))