- Fix how nulls are handled in array and objects in [json patches](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch). ([#102467](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102467), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

		}
	}

	if v, isSerializer := fieldValue.Interface().(SerializerInterface); isSerializer {
		field.DataType = String
		field.Serializer = v
	} else {
		serializerName := field.TagSettings["JSON"]
		if serializerName == "" {
			serializerName = field.TagSettings["SERIALIZER"]
		}
		if serializerName != "" {
			if serializer, ok := GetSerializer(serializerName); ok {

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [162e562 → v4.9.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/162e562...v4.9.0)

### Removed
- github.com/jessevdk/go-flags: [v1.4.0](https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags/tree/v1.4.0)



# v1.16.14

- kube-controller-manager
  - The deprecated `--insecure-experimental-approve-all-kubelet-csrs-for-group` flag has been removed.
- kubelet
  - The deprecated `--google-json-key` flag has been removed. Remove the `--google-json-key` flag from kubelet invocations before upgrading. ([#69354](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69354), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

👆 🔜 👀 🕳 💖:

```JSON
{"item_id": 5, "q": "somequery"}
```

## 🎓 🛠️ 🩺

* Removed comments in json config when using kubectl edit with -o json ([#31685](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31685), [@jellonek](https://github.com/jellonek))

* kubectl get -o jsonpath=... will now throw an error if the path is to a field not present in the json, even if the path is for a field valid for the type.  This is a change from the pre-1.5 behavior, which would return the default value for some fields even if they were not present in the json. ([#37991](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37991), [@pwittrock](https://github.com/pwittrock))

API fields previously capable of storing and returning either `[]` and `null` via JSON API requests (for example, the Endpoints `subsets` field)
can now store only `null` when created using the protobuf content-type or stored in etcd using protobuf serialization (the default in 1.6).

- github.com/docker/go-connections: [v0.3.0 → v0.4.0](https://github.com/docker/go-connections/compare/v0.3.0...v0.4.0)
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [v4.2.0+incompatible → e83c0a1](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/v4.2.0...e83c0a1)
- github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify: [v1.4.7 → v1.4.9](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/compare/v1.4.7...v1.4.9)

- the ability to rollback to etcd2 can be preserved by setting the storage media type flag on `kube-apiserver`

  ```
  --storage-media-type application/json
  ```

  to continue to use `application/json` as the storage media type which can be changed to
  `application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf` at a later time.

## Major updates and release themes