*...

- The `StructuredAuthenticationConfiguration` feature is now beta and enabled. ([#123719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123719), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))
- The `kube_codegen` tool now ignores the vendor folder during code generation.
   ([#122729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122729), [@jparrill](https://github.com/jparrill))

- Kubeadm: fix an issue with the kube-proxy container env. variables ([#84888](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84888), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
- Utilize diagnostics tool to dump GKE windows test logs ([#83517](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83517), [@YangLu1031](https://github.com/YangLu1031))

github.com/kisielk/errcheck,v1.2.0,h1:reN85Pxc5larApoH1keMBiu2GWtPqXQ1nc9gx+jOU+E=,709eeca978804f41720a94bc69ee3cfa8277f7d15016478a3ebda86606a286c5
github.com/kisielk/gotool,v1.0.0,h1:AV2c/EiW3KqPNT9ZKl07ehoAGi4C5/01Cfbblndcapg=,089dbba6e3aa09944fdb40d72acc86694e8bdde01cfc0f40fe0248309eb80a3f

                description: BPFPolicyDebugEnabled when true, Felix records detailed
                  information about the BPF policy programs, which can be examined
                  with the calico-bpf command-line tool.
                type: boolean
              chainInsertMode:
                description: 'ChainInsertMode controls whether Felix hooks the kernel''s

	* Mechanism of adding `federation domain maps` to kube-dns deployment via `--federations` flag is superseded by adding/updating `federations` key in `kube-system/kube-dns` configmap. If user is using kubefed tool to join cluster federation, adding federation domain maps to kube-dns is already taken care by `kubefed join` and does not need further action.

upgrading, and deleting clusters.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Cluster Lifecycle continued to focus on expanding the
capabilities of kubeadm, which is both a user-facing tool to manage clusters
and a building block for higher-level provisioning systems. Starting
with the 1.8 release, kubeadm supports a new upgrade command and includes alpha
support for self hosting the cluster control plane.

- The following deprecated metrics are removed, please convert to the corresponding metrics:

type myString string
myString('\u65e5')   // "\u65e5" == "日" == "\xe6\x97\xa5"
</pre>

Note: This form of conversion may eventually be removed from the language.
The <a href="/pkg/cmd/vet"><code>go vet</code></a> tool flags certain
integer-to-string conversions as potential errors.
Library functions such as
<a href="/pkg/unicode/utf8#AppendRune"><code>utf8.AppendRune</code></a> or

For stable features, the `kubectl` tool follows the Kubernetes [version skew policy](https://kubernetes.io/releases/version-skew-policy/);
however, kubectl v1.21 and older do not support the new API for ephemeral containers.