When building final release tars, they are first staged into `_output/release-stage` before being tar'd up and put into `_output/release-tars`.

## Reproducibility
`make release` and its variant `make quick-release` provide a
hermetic build environment which should provide some level of reproducibility
for builds. `make` itself is **not** hermetic.

- Pause: add a -v flag to the Windows variant of the pause binary, which prints the version of pause and exits. The Linux pause already has the flag. ([#125067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125067), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Windows]

    * If this permission is still desired, run the following command to explicitly grant it, either before or after upgrading to 1.7:
    *     kubectl create clusterrolebinding kube-system-default --serviceaccount=kube-system:default --clusterrole=cluster-admin

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There is no mitigation from this issue.  Cluster admins should take care to secure aggregated API servers and should not grant access to mutate `APIService`s to untrusted parties.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.25.0
  - kube-apiserver v1.24.0 - v1.24.4
  - kube-apiserver v1.23.0 - v1.23.10

There is no mitigation from this issue.  Cluster admins should take care to secure aggregated API servers and should not grant access to mutate `APIService`s to untrusted parties.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.25.0
  - kube-apiserver v1.24.0 - v1.24.4
  - kube-apiserver v1.23.0 - v1.23.10