- **Federation**
  - [alpha] Creating a `Federated Ingress` is as simple as submitting
    an `Ingress` creation request to the Federation API Server. The
    Federation control system then creates and maintains a single

* Add federation api and cm servers to hyperkube ([#27586](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27586), [@colhom](https://github.com/colhom))
* federation: Creating kubeconfig files to be used for creating secrets for clusters on aws and gke ([#27332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27332), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))

* Automated cherry pick of [#49259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49259): update json-patch to fix nil value issue when creating mergepatch ([#59324](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59324), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

- Fixed a regression in the kubelet's behavior while creating a container when the `EventedPLEG` feature gate is enabled. ([#120942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120942), [@sairameshv](https://github.com/sairameshv))

- kubeadm: Allowed to download certificate secrets uploaded by `init` or `upload-certs` phase, allowing to transfer certificate secrets (certificates and keys) from the cluster to other master machines when creating HA deployments. ([#74168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74168), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))

- E2e: tests can now register callbacks with `ginkgo.BeforeEach`, `ginkgo.AfterEach` or `ginkgo.DeferCleanup` directly after creating a framework instance and are guaranteed that their code is called after the framework is initialized and before it gets cleaned up. `ginkgo.DeferCleanup` replaces `f.AddAfterEach` and `AddCleanupAction` which got removed to simplify the framework....