- Kubectl: Add `--use-protocol-buffers` flag to kubectl top pods and nodes. ([#96655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96655), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

 * <p>
 * When using the {@code java.net.URL} class with
 * 'smb1://' URLs it is necessary to first call the static
 * {@code jcifs.smb1.Config.registerSmbURLHandler();} method. This is required
 * to register the SMB protocol handler.
 * <p>
 * The userinfo component of the SMB URL ({@code domain;user:pass}) must
 * be URL encoded if it contains reserved characters. According to RFC 2396

kube-apiserver (instead of --etcd-config):
     * --etcd-certfile, --etcd-keyfile (if using client cert auth)
     * --etcd-cafile (if not using system roots)
  * As part of preparation in 1.2 for adding support for protocol buffers (and the
direct YAML support in the API available today), the Content-Type and Accept
headers are now properly handled as per the HTTP spec.  As a consequence, if

- Kube-apiserver: multiple comma-separated protocols in a single X-Stream-Protocol-Version header are now recognized, in addition to multiple headers, complying with RFC2616 ([#89857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89857), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu)) [SIG API Machinery]

- AWS ELB health checks will now use HTTPS/SSL protocol for HTTPS/SSL backends. ([#70309](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70309), [@2rs2ts](https://github.com/2rs2ts))

### Azure

    /**
     * Get the value for the key 'crawler.web.protocols'. <br>
     * The value is, e.g. http,https <br>
     * comment: Supported web protocols for crawling.
     * @return The value of found property. (NotNull: if not found, exception but basically no way)
     */
    String getCrawlerWebProtocols();

    /**
     * Get the value for the key 'crawler.file.protocols'. <br>

        <field>
          <name>url</name>
          <version>4.0.0+</version>
          <required>true</required>
          <description>
            The url of the repository, in the form {@code protocol://hostname/path}.
          </description>
          <type>String</type>
        </field>
        <field>
          <name>layout</name>
          <version>4.0.0+</version>
          <description>

        Protocol available through
        `tf.types.experimental.SupportsTracingProtocol`.
    *   `TypeSpec` classes (as associated with `ExtensionTypes`) also implement
        the Tracing Protocol which can be overridden if necessary.
    *   The newly introduced `reduce_retracing` option also uses the Tracing
        Protocol to proactively generate generalized traces similar to

* fix parse devicePath issue on Azure Disk ([#74499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74499), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* fix mixed protocol issue for azure load balancer ([#74200](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74200), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Removed container name from messages for container created and started events. ([#134043](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134043), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))
- Removed deprecated gogo protocol definitions from `k8s.io/kubelet/pkg/apis/dra` in favor of `google.golang.org/protobuf`. ([#133026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133026), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]