- [Affected Versions](#affected-versions)
    - [How do I mitigate this vulnerability?](#how-do-i-mitigate-this-vulnerability)
      - [Fixed Versions](#fixed-versions)
    - [Detection](#detection)
      - [Additional Details](#additional-details)
      - [Acknowledgements](#acknowledgements)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-2)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-2)

* Fix nil pointer dereference in test framework ([#37583](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37583), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))
* Fixed detection of master during creation of multizone nodes cluster by kube-up. ([#38617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38617), [@jszczepkowski](https://github.com/jszczepkowski))

* Fix some false negatives in detection of meaningful conflicts during strategic merge patch with maps and lists. ([#43469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43469), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

func (s *xlStorage) writeAllInternal(ctx context.Context, filePath string, b []byte, sync bool, skipParent string) (err error) {
	flags := os.O_CREATE | os.O_WRONLY | os.O_TRUNC

	var w *os.File
	if sync {
		// Perform DirectIO along with fdatasync for larger xl.meta, mostly when
		// xl.meta has "inlined data" we prefer writing O_DIRECT and then doing
		// fdatasync() at the end instead of opening the file with O_DSYNC.
		//

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API
- We improved readiness detection and smoothing to work well in a larger variety or use cases

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.

- Kubeadm: avoid detection of the container runtime for commands that do not need it ([#97625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97625), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where the static pod changes detection logic is inconsistent with kubelet ([#118069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118069), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Make / build: fix docker IP address detection ([#135578](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135578), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release and Testing]

* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

- Fixed bug where explain was not properly respecting jsonpaths. ([#115694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115694), [@mpuckett159](https://github.com/mpuckett159))