- Fixed a regression preventing garbage collection of RBAC role and binding objects ([#90534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90534), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG Auth]

* Add generic NoSchedule toleration to fluentd in gcp config. ([#48182](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48182), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* RBAC role and role-binding reconciliation now ensures namespaces exist when reconciling on startup. ([#48480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48480), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Build/lib/release: Explicitly use '--platform' in building server images
  
  When we switched to go-runner for building the apiserver,
  controller-manager, and scheduler server components, we no longer
  reference the individual architectures in the image names, specifically

  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  
  This fixes the issue for jobs using pod failure policy (with JobPodFailurePolicy and PodDisruptionConditions 
  feature gates enabled) that their pods could get stuck in the pending phase when deleted.
  

enabled.([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436))

* [Action required] The validation rule for metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name must contain at least three segments, separated by dots. You can create objects with pending initializers and not rely on the API server to add pending initializers according to `initializerConfiguration`. If you do so, update the initializer name in the existing objects and the configuration files to...

* fix: make azure disk URI as case insensitive ([#79020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79020), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

- Automatically copy `topology.k8s.io/zone`, `topology.k8s.io/region` and `kubernetes.io/hostname` labels from Node objects to Pods when they are scheduled to a node (via the `pods/binding` endpoint) to allow applications that need to be explicitly aware of their assigned node topology to access this information via the downward API, rather than requiring permission to `get node` objects (exposing the entire API surface of the Node...

* allow restricting subresource access ([#30001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30001), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
* Fix PVC.Status.Capacity and AccessModes after binding ([#29982](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29982), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

    * Role bindings since the default scopes now include the "userinfo.email"
    * scope. This is a breaking change if the numeric uniqueIDs of the Google
    * service accounts were being used in RBAC role bindings. The behavior
    * can be overridden by explicitly specifying the scope values as

- Validating admission webhooks are now properly called for CREATE operations on the following resources: pods/binding, pods/eviction, bindings ([#76910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76910), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))