* RBAC objects are now stored in etcd in v1 format. After completing an upgrade to 1.9, RBAC objects (Roles, RoleBindings, ClusterRoles, ClusterRoleBindings) should be migrated to ensure all persisted objects are written in `v1` format, prior to `v1alpha1` support being removed in a future release. ([#52950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52950), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Other notable changes

Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. //go:build (ppc64 || ppc64le) && !purego // Based on CRYPTOGAMS code with the following comment: // # ========== // # Written by Andy Polyakov <******@****.***> for the OpenSSL // # project. The module is, however, dual licensed under OpenSSL and // # CRYPTOGAMS licenses depending on where you obtain it. For further // # details see http://www.openssl.org/~appro/cryptogams/....

- Kubectl cluster-info dump changed to only display a message telling you the location where the output was written when the output is not standard output. ([#88765](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88765), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG CLI]

- Fixed #118052: nodeAffinity on pods can change prior to scheduling gates being removed even when podSpec.affinity is nil in the initial spec, this matches the 1.28 behavior to allow consistent integrators to be written. ([#118199](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118199), [@aleskandro](https://github.com/aleskandro)) [SIG Apps, Scheduling and Testing]

* [fluentd-gcp addon] By default ingest apiserver audit logs written to file in JSON format. ([#52541](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52541), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

* Defaults for file audit logging backend in batch mode changed: ([#67223](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67223), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
    * Logs are written 1 at a time (no batching)
    * Only a single writer process (lock contention)

- Kubeadm: fix a regression where the KubeletConfiguration is not properly downloaded during "kubeadm upgrade" commands from the kube-system/kubelet-config ConfigMap, resulting in the local '/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml' file being written as a defaulted config. ([#124497](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124497), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Dockershim deprecation

Docker as an underlying runtime is being deprecated. Docker-produced images will continue to work in your cluster with all runtimes, as they always have.
The Kubernetes community [has written a blog post about this in detail](https://blog.k8s.io/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker/) with [a dedicated FAQ page for it](https://blog.k8s.io/2020/12/02/dockershim-faq/).

### External credential provider for client-go

- Kubectl cluster-info dump changed to only display a message telling you the location where the output was written when the output is not standard output. ([#88765](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88765), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG CLI]

## 0.100.0

✨ Support for **Pydantic v2** ✨

Pydantic version 2 has the **core** re-written in **Rust** and includes a lot of improvements and features, for example:

* Improved **correctness** in corner cases.
* **Safer** types.
* Better **performance** and **less energy** consumption.