### SIG Autoscaling

* A cluster-autoscaler ClusterRole is added to cover only the functionality required by Cluster Autoscaler and avoid abusing system:cluster-admin role. Cloud providers other than GCE might want to update their deployments or sample yaml files to reuse the role created via add-on. ([#64503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64503), [@kgolab](https://github.com/kgolab))

### SIG Azure

#### AWS

opes","value":""},{"key":"vendor","value":""},{"key":"keycloak_realm","value":""},{"key":"keycloak_admin_url","value":""}]},"identity_plugin":{"_":[{"key":"url","value":""},{"key":"auth_token","value":""},{"key":"role_policy","value":""},{"key":"role_id","value":""}]},"identity_tls":{"_":[{"key":"skip_verify","value":"off"}]},"ilm":{"_":[{"key":"transition_workers","value":"100"},{"key":"expiration_workers","value":"100"}]},"lambda_webhook":{"_":[{"key":"enable","value":"off"},{"key":"endpoint",...

- Kubeadm: stop applying the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule` taint to control plane nodes for new clusters. Remove the taint from existing control plane nodes during "kubeadm upgrade apply" ([#110095](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110095), [@neolit123](https:...

- Kubeadm: removed the toleration for the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint from the CoreDNS deployment of `kubeadm`. With the 1.25 release of kubeadm the taint `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` is no longer applied to control plane nodes and the toleration for it can be removed with the release of 1.26. You can also perform the same toleration removal from...

- Dropped the additional rule requirement (cronjobs/finalizers) for roles
  using kubectl create cronjobs to ensure backward compatibility. ([#124883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124883), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Fixed a regression preventing garbage collection of RBAC role and binding objects ([#90534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90534), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG Auth]

- E2e framework: the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint has been removed from the default value of `--non-blocking-taints` flag. You may need to set `--non-blocking-taints` explicitly if the cluster to be tested has nodes with the deprecated `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint. ([#118510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118510), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG...

* Fix SelectorSpreadPriority scheduler to match all selectors when distributing pods. ([#72801](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72801), [@Ramyak](https://github.com/Ramyak))
* Add bootstrap service account & cluster roles for node-lifecycle-controller, cloud-node-lifecycle-controller, and cloud-node-controller.   ([#72764](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72764), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- Fixed a regression preventing garbage collection of RBAC role and binding objects ([#90534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90534), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG Auth]