- Promoted API groups `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` and ...

* fixes an issue with multi-line annotations injected via downward API files getting scrambled ([#65992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65992), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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- Fix a bug on GCE that /etc/crictl.yaml is not generated when crictl is preloaded. ([#66877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66877), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
- Revert #63905: Setup dns servers and search domains for Windows Pods. DNS for Windows containers will be set by CNI plugins. ([#66587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66587), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

## Changelog since v1.19.15

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fix detach from non-existant nodes and support dangling volumes (#104912, @gnufied) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105526, @harisund) [SIG Scheduling]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

* Fix bug where EndpointSlice controller would attempt to modify shared objects. ([#85368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85368), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

  - Aggregated discovery requests can now timeout. Aggregated API servers must complete discovery calls within 5 seconds (other requests can take longer). Use the feature gate `EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout=false` to temporarily revert behavior to the previous 30 second timeout if required (the temporary `EnableAggregatedDiscoveryTimeout` feature gate will be removed in v1.17). ([#82146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82146), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))...

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  - node_cpu_usage_seconds --> node_cpu_usage_seconds_total
  - container_cpu_usage_seconds --> container_cpu_usage_seconds_total

  - Fix a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently ([#117267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117267), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]