* Fix aggressive VM calls for Azure VMSS ([#83102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83102), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

    * Disable timestamp adjustment in logs to optimize performance.
    * Reduce logging agent buffer chunk limit to 512k to optimize performance.
* Fix a bug on GCE that /etc/crictl.yaml is not generated when crictl is preloaded. ([#66877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66877), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

- Kubeadm: Ensured that during "upgrade" , if the "etcd.yaml" static pod did not need upgrade, still consider rotating the etcd certificates and restarting the etcd static pod if the "kube-apiserver.yaml" manifest was to be upgraded and if certificate renewal was not disabled. ([#124688](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124688), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))...

			<artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
			<version>${okhttp.version}</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.codelibs</groupId>
			<artifactId>java-saml</artifactId>
			<version>${java.saml.version}</version>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>
					<artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>

  </mime-type>

  <mime-type type="text/x-yaml">
    <_comment>YAML source code</_comment>
    <alias type="application/x-yaml" />
    <alias type="application/x-yml" />
    <alias type="application/yaml" />
    <alias type="text/vnd.yaml" />
    <alias type="text/yaml" />
    <alias type="text/x-yml" />
    <glob pattern="*.yaml"/>
    <glob pattern="*.yml"/>
    <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>

				"text/x-vbdotnet",
				"text/x-vbscript",
				"text/x-vcalendar",
				"text/x-vcard",
				"text/x-verilog",
				"text/x-vhdl",
				"text/x-web-markdown",
				"text/x-yacc",
				"text/x-yaml",
				"video/3gpp",
				"video/3gpp-tt",
				"video/3gpp2",
				"video/bmpeg",
				"video/bt656",
				"video/celb",
				"video/dv",
				"video/example",
				"video/h261",

# Plugin repository URLs.
plugin.repositories=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codelibs/fess/,https://fess.codelibs.org/plugin/artifacts.yaml
# Version filter for plugins.
plugin.version.filter=


# ----------------------------------------------------------

- Fix unsafe JSON construction in a number of locations in the codebase ([#81158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81158), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))

### Other notable changes

* Fix aggressive VM calls for Azure VMSS ([#83102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83102), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

		* `kubectl version` has new flag --output (=json or yaml) allowing result of the command to be parsed in either json format or yaml. ([#39858](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39858), [@alejandroEsc](https://github.com/alejandroEsc))


  * Bug fixes