*   The Kubelet's feature gates are now specified as a map when provided via a JSON or YAML KubeletConfiguration, rather than as a string of key-value pairs, making them less awkward for users. ([#53025](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53025),[ @mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

##### **Other**

* kube-proxy: feature gates are now specified as a map when provided via a JSON or YAML KubeProxyConfiguration, rather than as a string of key-value pairs. For example:

KubeProxyConfiguration Before:

```
apiVersion: kubeproxy.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1
kind: KubeProxyConfiguration
**featureGates: "SupportIPVSProxyMode=true"**
```

Pass `*`, as the first parameter of the function.

Python won't do anything with that `*`, but it will know that all the following parameters should be called as keyword arguments (key-value pairs), also known as <abbr title="From: K-ey W-ord Arg-uments"><code>kwargs</code></abbr>. Even if they don't have a default value.

```Python hl_lines="7"
{!../../../docs_src/path_params_numeric_validations/tutorial003.py!}
```

- The CSR signing cert/key pairs will be reloaded from disk like the kube-apiserver cert/key pairs ([#86816](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86816), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Auth]

              // it's unnecessary to waste cycles looking at them. This check is built on the
              // observation that the header entries we care about are in adjacent pairs, and we
              // always know the first index of the pair.
              if (STATIC_HEADER_TABLE[headerNameIndex - 1].value == value) {
                headerIndex = headerNameIndex

}

// ConfigMapEnvSource selects a ConfigMap to populate the environment
// variables with.
//
// The contents of the target ConfigMap's Data field will represent the
// key-value pairs as environment variables.
message ConfigMapEnvSource {
  // The ConfigMap to select from.
  optional LocalObjectReference localObjectReference = 1;

  // Specify whether the ConfigMap must be defined
  // +optional

    `item.dict()`

    and then we are passing the `dict`'s key-value pairs as the keyword arguments to the SQLAlchemy `Item`, with:

    `Item(**item.dict())`

    And then we pass the extra keyword argument `owner_id` that is not provided by the Pydantic *model*, with:

* Ensure status is not changed during an update of PV, PVC, HPA objects ([#24924](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24924), [@mqliang](https://github.com/mqliang))
* GCI: Add two GCI specific metadata pairs ([#25105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25105), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))

* start etcd compactor in background ([#25010](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25010), [@hongchaodeng](https://github.com/hongchaodeng))
* GCI: Add two GCI specific metadata pairs ([#25105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25105), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))