- Protobuf serialization of metav1.MicroTime timestamps (used in `Lease` and `Event` API objects) has been corrected to truncate to microsecond precision, to match the documented behavior and JSON/YAML serialization. Any existing persisted data is truncated to microsecond when read from etcd. ([#111936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111936), [@haoruan](https://github.com/haoruan)) [SIG API Machinery]

  * You can remove the "old" taints (stored internally as annotations) at any time after the upgrade by doing `kubectl annotate nodes <node...

### API Change

- Protobuf serialization of metav1.MicroTime timestamps (used in `Lease` and `Event` API objects) has been corrected to truncate to microsecond precision, to match the documented behavior and JSON/YAML serialization. Any existing persisted data is truncated to microsecond when read from etcd. ([#111936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111936), [@haoruan](https://github.com/haoruan)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Feature

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

    String LDAP_ATTR_HOME_DIRECTORY = "ldap.attr.homeDirectory";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codelibs/fess/,https://fess.codelibs.org/plugin/artifacts.yaml */
    String PLUGIN_REPOSITORIES = "plugin.repositories";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g.  */
    String PLUGIN_VERSION_FILTER = "plugin.version.filter";

- Protobuf serialization of metav1.MicroTime timestamps (used in `Lease` and `Event` API objects) has been corrected to truncate to microsecond precision, to match the documented behavior and JSON/YAML serialization. Any existing persisted data is truncated to microsecond when read from etcd. ([#111936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111936), [@haoruan](https://github.com/haoruan))

- Updated the generic apiserver library to produce an error if a new API server is configured with support for a data format other than JSON, YAML, or Protobuf. ([#121325](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121325), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery]

- kubeadm: added the feature gate `NodeLocalCRISocket`. When the feature gate is enabled, kubeadm will generate the `/var/lib/kubelet/instance-config.yaml` file to customize the `containerRuntimeEndpoint` field in the kubelet configuration for each node and will not write the same CRI socket on the Node object as an annotation. ([#128031](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128031), [@Hira...

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

  upgrading a cluster, all objects in resource.k8s.io/v1alpha1 (ResourceClaim, ResourceClaimTemplate,
  ResourceClass, PodScheduling) must be deleted. The changes are internal, so
  YAML files which create pods and resource claims don't need changes except for
  the newer `apiVersion`. ([#116299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116299), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))