- Switched intstr.Type to sized integer to follow API guidelines and improve compatibility with proto libraries ([#83956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83956), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- 'Promoted `cronjob_job_creation_skew` metric to stable to follow the cronjob v2 controller,
  the following metrics had their name updated to match metrics API guidelines:
    - `cronjob_job_creation_skew_duration_seconds` -> `job_creation_skew_duration_seconds`.' ([#113008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113008), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

  - Health check (liveness & readiness) probes using an HTTPGetAction will no longer follow redirects to different hostnames from the original probe request. Instead, these non-local redirects will be treated as a Success (the documented behavior). In this case an event with reason "ProbeWarning" will be generated, indicating that the redirect...

## Known Issues

- Concurrently joining control-plane nodes does not work as expected in kubeadm 1.15.0. The feature was planned for release in 1.15.0, but a fix may  come in a follow up patch release.

* Use full package path for definition name in OpenAPI spec ([#40124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40124), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))
* Follow redirects for streaming requests (exec/attach/port-forward) in the apiserver by default (alpha -> beta). ([#40039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40039), [@timstclair](https://github.com/timstclair))

- Fix --ignore-errors does not take effect if multiple logs are printed and unfollowed ([#97686](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97686), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG CLI]

* Map correct vmset name for Azure internal load balancers. ([#59747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59747), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- CoreDNS correctly implements DNS spec for Services with externalNames that look like IP addresses. Kube-dns does not follow the spec for the same case, resulting in a behavior change when moving from Kube-dns to CoreDNS. See: [coredns/coredns#2324](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/2324)

* CRI now defines mounting behavior. If the host path doesn't exist, the runtime should return an error. If the host path is a symlink, the runtime should follow the symlink and mount the real destination to the container. ([#61460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61460), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

### SIG OpenStack

### Ephemeral Containers Graduate to Stable