### Increase the Kubernetes support window to one year

As of Kubernetes 1.19, bugfix support via patch releases for a Kubernetes minor release has increased from 9 months to 1 year.

A survey conducted in early 2019 by the working group (WG) Long Term Support (LTS) showed that a significant subset of Kubernetes end-users fail to upgrade within the previous 9-month support period. 

does not support protobuf encoding, if you roll back to 1.5 after upgrading to
protobuf you will be forced to restore from backup, and you will lose any changes
since you converted to protobuf.  After conversion to protobuf, you should
validate the correct operation of your cluster thoroughly before returning it
to normal operation.

    val connect1 = server.takeRequest()
    assertThat(connect1.requestLine).isEqualTo("CONNECT android.com:443 HTTP/1.1")
    assertThat(connect1.headers["Proxy-Authorization"]).isNull()
    val connect2 = server.takeRequest()
    assertThat(connect2.requestLine).isEqualTo("CONNECT android.com:443 HTTP/1.1")
    assertThat(connect2.headers["Proxy-Authorization"]).isEqualTo("password")

- Existing PVs are converted to use volume topology if migration is enabled. ([#83394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83394), [@bertinatto](https://github.com/bertinatto))

- Because of the implementation logic of `time.Format` in golang, the displayed time zone is not consistent. ([#102366](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102366), [@cndoit18](https://github.com/cndoit18))
- Corrected the documentation for escaping dollar signs in a container's env, command and args property. ([#101916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101916), [@MartinKanters](https://github.com/MartinKanters)) [SIG Apps]

* Modifying the default container GC policy parameters ([#27881](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27881), [@ronnielai](https://github.com/ronnielai))
* Kubelet can retrieve host IP even when apiserver has not been contacted ([#27508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27508), [@aaronlevy](https://github.com/aaronlevy))

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HSPLokhttp3/EventListener;->callFailed(Lokhttp3/Call;Ljava/io/IOException;)V
HSPLokhttp3/EventListener;->callStart(Lokhttp3/Call;)V
HSPLokhttp3/EventListener;->connectEnd(Lokhttp3/Call;Ljava/net/InetSocketAddress;Ljava/net/Proxy;Lokhttp3/Protocol;)V
HSPLokhttp3/EventListener;->connectStart(Lokhttp3/Call;Ljava/net/InetSocketAddress;Ljava/net/Proxy;)V

* Support German cloud for azure disk mount feature ([#50673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50673), [@clement-buchart](https://github.com/clement-buchart))
* BugFix: Exited containers are not Garbage Collected by the kubelet while the pod is running ([#53167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53167), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

    * A distributed claim allows the OIDC provider to delegate a claim to a
    * separate URL.  Distributed claims are of the form as seen below, and are
    * defined in the OIDC Connect Core 1.0, section 5.6.2.
    * For details, see:
    * http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#AggregatedDistributedClaims

- Fixes a bug where images pinned by the container runtime can be garbage collected by kubelet. ([#120054](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120054), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG Node]