* It is now posible to use flexVolumes to bind mount directories and files. ([#50596](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50596), [@adelton](https://github.com/adelton))

  (as in CVE-2021-29923).
  
  This tightening applies only to fields in built-in API kinds, and not to
  custom resource kinds, values in Kubernetes configuration files, or
  command-line arguments.
  
  (When the feature gate is disabled, creating an object with such an invalid
  IP or CIDR value will result in a warning from the API server about the fact

- Kubeadm: warn but do not error out on missing "ca.key" files for root CA, front-proxy CA and etcd CA, during "kubeadm join --control-plane" if the user has provided all certificates, keys and kubeconfig files which require signing with the given CA keys. ([#94988...

// mergeXLV2Versions will merge all versions, typically from different disks
// that have at least quorum entries in all metas.
// Each version slice should be sorted.
// Quorum must be the minimum number of matching metadata files.
// Quorum should be > 1 and <= len(versions).
// If strict is set to false, entries that match type

pkg go/types, method (*Chan) Dir() ChanDir
pkg go/types, method (*Chan) Elem() Type
pkg go/types, method (*Chan) String() string
pkg go/types, method (*Chan) Underlying() Type
pkg go/types, method (*Checker) Files([]*ast.File) error
pkg go/types, method (*Config) Check(string, *token.FileSet, []*ast.File, *Info) (*Package, error)
pkg go/types, method (*Const) Exported() bool
pkg go/types, method (*Const) Id() string

- Kubeadm: allow the "certs check-expiration" command to not require the existence of the cluster CA key (ca.key file) when checking the expiration of managed certificates in kubeconfig files. ([#106929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106929), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

		// Note: we should not be defer'ing the following closeBitrotReaders() call as
		// we are inside a for loop i.e if we use defer, we would accumulate a lot of open files by the time
		// we return from this function.
		closeBitrotReaders(readers)
		if err != nil {
			// If we have successfully written all the content that was asked

	t, _ := t1.(*testing.T)
	testBuckets := []string{
		// This bucket is used for testing ListObject operations.
		"test-bucket-folders",
		// This bucket has file delete marker.
		"test-bucket-files",
	}
	for _, bucket := range testBuckets {
		err := obj.MakeBucket(context.Background(), bucket, MakeBucketOptions{
			VersioningEnabled: true,
		})
		if err != nil {
			t.Fatalf("%s : %s", instanceType, err.Error())

### Bug or Regression

- Add `/sys/devices/virtual/powercap` to default masked paths. It avoids the potential security risk that the ability to read these files may offer a power-based sidechannel attack against any workloads running on the same kernel. ([#125970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125970), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Node]

var getRemoteInstanceClient = func(r *http.Request, host string) (*miniogo.Core, error) {
	cred := getReqAccessCred(r, globalSite.Region())
	// In a federated deployment, all the instances share config files
	// and hence expected to have same credentials.
	core, err := miniogo.NewCore(host, &miniogo.Options{
		Creds:     credentials.NewStaticV4(cred.AccessKey, cred.SecretKey, ""),
		Secure:    globalIsTLS,