- The alpha feature `ServiceAccountIssuerDiscovery` enables publishing OIDC discovery information and service account token verification keys at `/.well-known/openid-configuration` and `/openid/v1/jwks` endpoints by API servers configured to issue service account tokens. ([#80724](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80724), [@cceckman](https://github.com/cceckman)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cluster Lifecycle and Testing]...

### Auth

- Fixed OpenID Connect (OIDC) token refresh when the client secret contains a special character. ([#76914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76914), [@tsuna](https://github.com/tsuna))

* Support whitespace in command path for gcp auth plugin ([#41653](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41653), [@jlowdermilk](https://github.com/jlowdermilk))
* client-go no longer imports GCP OAuth2 and OpenID Connect packages by default. ([#41532](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41532), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- The `--bind-address` parameter in kube-proxy is misleading, no port is opened with this address. Instead it is translated internally to "nodeIP". The nodeIPs for both families are now taken from the Node object if `--bind-address` is unspecified or set to the "any" address (0.0.0.0 or ::). It is recommended to leave `--bind-address`...

* API server authentication now caches successful bearer token authentication results for a few seconds. ([#50258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50258), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- kubeadm: removed preflight check for nsenter on Linux nodes
  kubeadm: added preflight check for `losetup` on Linux nodes. It's required by kubelet for keeping a block device opened. ([#129450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129450), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* The CSIBlockVolume feature gate is now beta, and defaults to enabled. ([#74909](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74909), [@bswartz](https://github.com/bswartz))

* The OpenID Connect authenticator can now use a custom prefix, or omit the default prefix, for username and groups claims through the --oidc-username-prefix and --oidc-groups-prefix flags. For example, the authenticator can map a user with the username "jane"...

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*   `tf.distribute`

    *   Opened an experimental API, `tf.distribute.experimental.coordinator.get_current_worker_index`, for retrieving the worker index from within a worker, when using parameter server training with a custom training loop.