- Kubelet: Added kubelet serving certificate metric `server_rotation_seconds` which is a histogram reporting the age of a just rotated serving certificate in seconds. ([#84534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84534), [@sambdavidson](https://github.com/sambdavidson))

audit log rotation (the default remains `100` MB). In order to avoid outages due to filling disks with ever-growing audit logs, `--audit-log-maxage` now defaults to 366 (1 year) and `--audit-log-maxbackup` now defaults to 100. If retention of all rotated logs is desired, age and count-based pruning can be disabled by explicitly specifying `--audit-log-maxage=0` and `--audit-log-maxbackup=0`. ([#136478](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136478), [@kairosci](https://github.com/kairosci))...

ACL’ed on the pods’ service account without handing out unnecessary permissions to the CSI drivers’ service account. This feature is especially important for secret-handling CSI drivers, such as the secrets-store-csi-driver. Since these tokens can be rotated and short-lived, this feature also provides a knob for CSI drivers to receive `NodePublishVolume` RPC calls periodically with the new token. This knob is also useful when volumes are short-lived, e.g. certificates.

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- Fixed the bug where kubelet couldn't output logs after log file rotated when `kubectl logs POD_NAME -f` is running. ([#115702](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115702), [@xyz-li](https://github.com/xyz-li))

- The Kubernetes API server now correctly detects and closes existing TLS connections when its client certificate file for kubelet authentication has been rotated. ([#115315](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115315), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Node and Testing]

* client-go: shortens refresh period for token files to 1 minute to ensure auto-rotated projected service account tokens are read frequently enough. ([#72437](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72437), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kubelets configured to rotate client certificates now publish a `certificate_manager_server_ttl_seconds` gauge metric indicating the remaining seconds until certificate expiration. ([#91148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91148), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

    - `rest_client_certificate_rotation_age` a histogram reporting the age of a just rotated client certificate in seconds. ([#84382](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84382), [@sambdavidson](https://github.com/sambdavidson)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

* kubelet `--cert-dir` now defaults to `/var/lib/kubelet/pki`, in order to ensure bootstrapped and rotated certificates persist beyond a reboot. resolves an issue in kubeadm with false-positive `/var/lib/kubelet is not empty` message during pre-flight checks ([#53317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53317), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...