* kube-apiserver: The external hostname no longer longer use the cloud provider API to select a default. It can be set explicitly using --external-hostname, if needed. If there is no default, AdvertiseAddress or os.Hostname() will be used, in that order. ([#56812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56812), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

conjunction with SIG Cloud Provider, is focusing on moving internal APIs that the OpenStack (and other providers) depends upon to staging to guarantee API stability. This work also included abstracting the in-tree Cinder API and refactoring code to the external Cinder provider to remove additional Cinder volume provider code.

Additional work was also done to implement an OpenStack driver for the Cluster API effort lead by SIG Cluster Lifecycle. For the external Cloud-Provider-OpenStack code, the...

* Add iptables rules to allow Pod traffic even when default iptables policy is to reject. ([#52569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52569), [@tmjd](https://github.com/tmjd))

- GCE Windows will no longer install Docker on containerd nodes. ([#101747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101747), [@jeremyje](https://github.com/jeremyje)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Windows]

- Kubeadm: the `kubelet-finalize` phase of `kubeadm init` no longer requires the kubelet kubeconfig to have a specific authinfo. ([#123171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123171), [@vrutkovs](https://github.com/vrutkovs))

Throwables$State$2 { void Throwables$State$2(String, int); public Throwables$State processLine(String); } org/junit/internal/management/ReflectiveRuntimeMXB$Holder.class package org.junit.internal.management; final synchronized class ReflectiveRuntimeMXB$Holder { private static final reflect.Method getInputArgumentsMet; private void ReflectiveRuntimeMXB$Holder(); static void <clinit>(); } org/junit/internal/management/ThreadMXBean.class package org.junit.internal.management; public abstract interface ThreadMXBean...

- Updates docs and guidance on cloud provider InstancesV2 and Zones interface for external cloud providers:
  - removes experimental warning for InstancesV2
  - document that implementation of InstancesV2 will disable calls to Zones

      merely dropped) as soon as there are no longer any *usable*
      endpoints, rather than waiting until all of the terminating
      endpoints have terminated even when those terminating endpoints
      were not being used.
  
    - Chains for endpoints that won't be used are no longer output to

- Deprecated beta APIs scheduled for removal in `v1.26` are no longer served. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/deprecation-guide/#v1-26 for more information. ([#111973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111973), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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