- Use of secret-based service account tokens now adds an `authentication.k8s.io/legacy-token-autogenerated-secret` or `authentication.k8s.io/legacy-token-manual-secret` audit annotation containing the name of the secret used. ([#118598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118598), [@yuanchen8911](https://github.com/yuanchen8911)) [SIG Auth, Instrumentation...

* ACTION REQUIRED: Azure cloud provider could now be configured by Kubernetes secrets and a new option `cloudConfigType` is introduced, whose candidate values are `file`, `secret` and `merge` (default is `merge`). Note that the secret is a serialized version of azure.json file with key cloud-config. And the secret name is azure-cloud-provider in kube-system namespace. To allow Azure cloud provider read this secret, the RBAC permission referred [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78242)...

- Remove iSCSI volume storage cleartext secrets in logs ([#81215](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81215), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))

improves the security posture in the mounting process where the volumes are ACL’ed on the pods’ service account without handing out unnecessary permissions to the CSI drivers’ service account. This feature is especially important for secret-handling CSI drivers, such as the secrets-store-csi-driver. Since these tokens can be rotated and short-lived, this feature also provides a knob for CSI drivers to receive `NodePublishVolume` RPC calls periodically with the new token. This knob is also useful when volumes...

- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#105793, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106356, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106112, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]

* 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))

## Kubefed

* Deprecate the `--secret-name` flag from `kubefed join`, instead generating the secret name arbitrarily. ([#42513](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42513), [@perotinus](https://github.com/perotinus))


### **Kubernetes API**
#### User Provided Extensions

### CVE-2023-2728: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

- Fixed an issue to ignore unnecessary node events and improve daemonset controller performance. ([#121669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121669), [@xigang](https://github.com/xigang))

  * “kubectl run” now produces Deployments (instead of ReplicationControllers) and
Jobs (instead of Pods) by default.
  * Pods can now consume Secret data in environment variables and inject those
environment variables into a container’s command-line args.
  * Stable version of Heapster which scales up to 1000 nodes: more metrics, reduced