- Fixes an issue where the vsphere cloud provider will not trust a certificate if:
  - The issuer of the certificate is unknown (x509.UnknownAuthorityError)
  - The requested name does not match the set of authorized names (x509.HostnameError)

- The `CertificateSigningRequest.certificates.k8s.io` API supports an optional expirationSeconds field to allow the client to request a particular duration for the issued certificate.  The default signer implementations provided by the Kubernetes controller manager will honor this field as long as it does not exceed the --cluster-signing-duration flag. ([#99494](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99494), [@enj](h...

- Kubeadm: removed the restriction that the `ca.crt` can only contain one certificate. If there is more than one certificate in the `ca.crt` file, kubeadm will pick the first one by default. ([#107327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107327), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

- Resolves an issue using `kubectl certificate approve/deny` against a server serving the v1 CSR API ([#91691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91691), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Auth and CLI]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Be able to create a Pod with Generic Ephemeral Volumes as raw block devices. ([#105682](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105682), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
- CA, certificate and key bundles for the `generic-apiserver` based servers will be reloaded immediately after the files are changed. ([#104102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104102), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn))

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# The URL of the search engine HTTP endpoint.
# For IPv6 environments, use brackets around the IPv6 address (e.g., http://[::1]:9201)
search_engine.http.url=http://localhost:9201
# Path to SSL certificate authorities for secure HTTP connections.
search_engine.http.ssl.certificate_authorities=
# Username for authenticating to the search engine.
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# Password for authenticating to the search engine.

- X.509 client certificate authentication to the kube-apiserver now produces credential IDs (derived from the certificate's signature) , for use in audit logging. ([#125634](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125634), [@ahmedtd](https://github.com/ahmedtd)) [SIG...

- Fixes an issue where the vsphere cloud provider will not trust a certificate if:
  - The issuer of the certificate is unknown (x509.UnknownAuthorityError)
  - The requested name does not match the set of authorized names (x509.HostnameError)

- Fixes an issue cleaning up CertificateSigningRequest objects with an unparseable `status.certificate` field ([#103949](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103949), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Apps and Auth]

* Resolves x509 verification issue with masters dialing nodes when started with --kubelet-certificate-authority ([#33141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33141), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))