- [DNS](#dns)
    - [DNS Autoscaler](#dns-autoscaler)
    - [Cluster Autoscaler](#cluster-autoscaler-1)
    - [Cluster Load Balancing](#cluster-load-balancing)
    - [etcd Empty Dir Cleanup](#etcd-empty-dir-cleanup)
    - [Fluentd](#fluentd)
    - [Heapster](#heapster)
    - [Registry](#registry)
  - [External Dependency Version Information](#external-dependency-version-information)

- `--log-flush-frequency` had no effect in several commands or was missing. Help and warning texts were not always using the right format for a command (`add_dir_header` instead of `add-dir-header`). Fixing this included cleaning up flag handling in component-base/logs: that package no longer adds flags to the global flag sets. Commands which want the klog and `--log-flush-frequency` flags must explicitly call `logs.AddFlags`;...

- Removed Alpha feature `MountContainers` ([#84365](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84365), [@codenrhoden](https://github.com/codenrhoden))
- Removed plugin watching of the deprecated directory `{kubelet_root_dir}/plugins` and CSI V0 support in accordance with deprecation announcement in https://v1-13.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/setup/release/notes ([#84533](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84533), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))

* fix the error prone account creation method of blob disk ([#59739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59739), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Get parent dir via canonical absolute path when trying to judge mount-point ([#58433](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58433), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

* The dynamic Kubelet config feature is now beta, and the DynamicKubeletConfig feature gate is on by default. In order to use dynamic Kubelet config, ensure that the Kubelet's --dynamic-config-dir option is set.  ([#64275](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64275), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

  - apiserver-advertise-address / apiserver-bind-port: use either localAPIEndpoint from InitConfiguration or controlPlaneEndpoint from ClusterConfiguration.
  - cluster-name: use clusterName from ClusterConfiguration
  - cert-dir: use certificatesDir from ClusterConfiguration ([#94879](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94879), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubelet: the following dockershim related flags are also removed along with dockershim `--experimental-dockershim-root-directory`, `--docker-endpoint`, `--image-pull-progress-deadline`, `--network-plugin`, `--cni-conf-dir`, `--cni-bin-dir`, `--cni-cache-dir`, `--network-plugin-mtu`. ([#106907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106907), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

- Kubelet: The `--azure-container-registry-config` flag has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release, please use `--image-credential-provider-config` and `--image-credential-provider-bin-dir` to setup acr credential provider instead. ([#118596](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118596), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Node]

aryFolder.class package org.junit.rules; public synchronized class TemporaryFolder extends ExternalResource { private final java.io.File parentFolder; private final boolean assureDeletion; private java.io.File folder; private static final int TEMP_DIR_ATTEMPTS = 10000; private static final String TMP_PREFIX = junit; public void TemporaryFolder(); public void TemporaryFolder(java.io.File); protected void TemporaryFolder(TemporaryFolder$Builder); public static TemporaryFolder$Builder builder(); protected...

### Bug or Regression

- Cherry-pick #115769: Fix the problem Pod terminating stuck because of trying to umount not actual mounted dir. ([#119831](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119831), [@cartermckinnon](https://github.com/cartermckinnon)) [SIG Node and Storage]