*   The API group/version for the kube-proxy configuration has changed from `componentconfig/v1alpha1` to `kubeproxy.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1`. If you are using a config file for kube-proxy instead of the command line flags, you must change its apiVersion to `kubeproxy.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1`. ([#53645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53645), [@xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))

* Change default clusterCIDRs from /16 to /14 in GCE configs allowing 1000 Node clusters by default. ([#25350](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25350), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

- '`kube-apiserver`: adds `--authentication-config` flag for reading `AuthenticationConfiguration`
  files. `--authentication-config` flag is mutually exclusive with the existing `--oidc-*`
  flags.' ([#119142](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119142), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))
- '`kube-scheduler` component config (`KubeSchedulerConfiguration`) `kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta3`

    * Added --config-map and --config-map-namespace command line options.
    * If --config-map is set, kube-dns will load dynamic configuration from the config map
      referenced by --config-map-namespace, --config-map. The config-map supports
      the following properties: "federations".
    * --federations flag is now deprecated. Prefer to set federations via the config-map.

- golang.org/x/tools/go/packages/packagestest: v0.1.1-deprecated

### Changed
- cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata: v0.6.0 → v0.7.0
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config: [v1.27.24 → v1.29.14](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/compare/config/v1.27.24...config/v1.29.14)
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials: [v1.17.24 → v1.17.67](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/compare/credentials/v1.17.24...credentials/v1.17.67)

   * -viper-config can be used to set also the options defined by command line flags
   * the default config file is "e2e.yaml/toml/json/..." and the test starts when no such config is found (as before) but if -viper-config is used, the config file must exist
   * -viper-config can be used to select a file with full path, with or without file suffix

- Config.k8s.io.flagz API is graduated to v1beta1 ([#137174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/137174), [@richabanker](https://github.com/richabanker)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

- Kubeadm:  'kubeadm alpha kubelet config download' has been removed, please use 'kubeadm upgrade node phase kubelet-config' instead ([#87944](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87944), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

kubeadm-config Before:

```
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: kubeadm-config
data:
  MasterConfiguration: |
    kubeProxy:
      config:
        featureGates: "SupportIPVSProxyMode=true"
```

- Add flag --lease-max-object-size and metric etcd_lease_object_counts for kube-apiserver to config and observe max objects attached to a single etcd lease. ([#97480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97480), [@lingsamuel](https://github.com/lingsamuel)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]