* Kubectl commands run inside a pod using a kubeconfig file now use the namespace specified in the kubeconfig file, instead of using the pod namespace. If no kubeconfig file is used, or the kubeconfig does not specify a namespace, the pod namespace is still used as a fallback. ([#44570](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44570), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

      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
      iptables, saving a bit of memory/time/cpu. (#106373, @aojea) [SIG Network]

- Introduces a new GCE specific cluster creation variable KUBE_PROXY_DISABLE. When set to true, this will skip over the creation of kube-proxy (whether the daemonset or static pod). This can be used to control the lifecycle of kube-proxy separately from the lifecycle...

    which was updated to address a CVE in the CNI plugins.
    
    A side-effect of using this new image was that the networking packages
    (namely `iptables`) drifted from the versions used in the kube-proxy images.
  
    The following issues were filed on kube-proxy failures when using hyperkube:
    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92275

- e2e tests that require SSH may now be used against clusters that have nodes without external IP addresses by setting the environment variable `KUBE_SSH_BASTION` to the `host:port` of a machine that is allowed to SSH to those nodes.  The same private key that the test would use is used for the bastion host.  The test connects to the bastion and then tunnels another SSH connection to the node. ([#72286](https:/...

	// are not going to propagate to verification code, which used to happen
	// resulting in tests that passed when they shouldn't have.
	obj = obj.DeepCopyObject()
	return f.REST.Create(ctx, obj, createValidation, options)
}

//
// Generic registry tests
//

// This is used in generic registry tests.
func validService() *api.Service {
	return svctest.MakeService("foo",

plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

**Note**: This only impacts the cluster if the ServiceAccount admission plugin is used (most cluster should have this on by default as recommended in https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/#serviceaccount), the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation is used by a service account (this annotation is not added by default), and...

[Generic ephermeral volumes](https://docs.k8s.io/concepts/storage/ephemeral-volumes/#generic-ephemeral-volumes) feature allows any existing storage driver that supports dynamic provisioning to be used as an ephemeral volume with the volume’s lifecycle bound to the Pod. It can be used to provide scratch storage that is different from the root disk, for example persistent memory, or a separate local disk on that node. All StorageClass parameters for volume provisioning are supported. All...

      // case it means some of the inputs are not used.
      //
      // An example is to have input_cols = 3, filter_cols = 2 and stride = 2:
      //
      // INPUT =  [ A  B  C ]
      //
      // FILTER = [ x y ]
      //
      // and the output will only have one column: a = A * x + B * y
      //
      // and input "C" is not used at all.
      //

      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
      iptables, saving a bit of memory/time/cpu. ([#106030](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106030), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]