- Kubeadm: during execution of the "check expiration" command, treat the etcd CA as external if there is a missing etcd CA key file (etcd/ca.key) and perform the proper validation on certificates signed by...

- Kubeadm: warn but do not error out on missing "ca.key" files for root CA, front-proxy CA and etcd CA, during "kubeadm join --control-plane" if the user has provided all certificates, keys and kubeconfig files which require signing with the given CA keys. ([#94988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94988), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### **Cluster Lifecycle**

*   You must either specify the `--discovery-token-ca-cert-hash` flag to `kubeadm join`, or opt out of the CA pinning feature using `--discovery-token-unsafe-skip-ca-verification`.
*   The default `auto-detect` behavior of the kubelet's `--cloud-provider` flag is removed.

* Fix an issue that pods using hostNetwork keep increasing. ([#67456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67456), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* Allows extension API server to dynamically discover the requestheader CA certificate when the core API server doesn't use certificate based authentication for it's clients ([#66394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66394), [@rtripat](https://github.com/rtripat))

- Kubeadm: warn but do not error out on missing "ca.key" files for root CA, front-proxy CA and etcd CA, during "kubeadm join --control-plane" if the user has provided all certificates, keys and kubeconfig files which require signing with the given CA keys. ([#94988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94988), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- The extension API server can now dynamically discover the requestheader CA certificate when the core API server doesn't use certificate based authentication for it's clients. ([#66394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66394), [@rtripat](https://github.com/rtripat))

### SIG Autoscaling

* Allows extension API server to dynamically discover the requestheader CA certificate when the core API server doesn't use certificate based authentication for it's clients ([#66394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66394), [@rtripat](https://github.com/rtripat))



# v1.11.2

- Client-go: make generated CA certificates valid 1 hour in the past (NewSelfSignedCACert). Applies to CA certificates and other certificates generated by kubeadm. ([#118631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118631), [@champtar](https://github.com/champtar)) [SIG Auth]

* Azuredisk mount on windows node ([#51252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51252), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bug with event-exporter leaking memory on metrics in clusters with CA is fixed. ([#52263](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52263), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

### Feature

- Kubeadm: generate CA certificates with a start time that is offset 5 minutes in the past relative to the current system time to workaround cases of clock desync.