* genericapiserver: cut off pkg/serviceaccount dependency ([#39945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39945), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* genericapiserver: cut off pkg/apis/extensions and pkg/storage dependencies ([#39946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39946), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Bump GCI to gci-beta-56-9000-80-0 ([#41027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41027), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))
* Fix for detach volume when node is not present/ powered off ([#40118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40118), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))

- Text logging in Kubernetes components now uses [textlogger](https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/klog/v2@v2.120.0/textlogger). The same split streams of info and error log entries with buffering of info entries is now also supported for text output (off by default, alpha feature). Previously, this was only supported for JSON. Performance is better also without split streams. ([#114672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114672), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

* Allow setting the Host header in a httpGet probe ([#24292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24292), [@errm](https://github.com/errm))
* Bridge off-cluster traffic into services by masquerading. ([#24429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24429), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))

* Incremental improvements to kubelet e2e tests ([#24426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24426), [@pwittrock](https://github.com/pwittrock))
* Bridge off-cluster traffic into services by masquerading. ([#24429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24429), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

- In-tree cloud providers are now switched off by default. Please use `DisableCloudProviders` and `DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProvider` feature flags if you still need this functionality. ([#117503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117503), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Kubeadm: added the "--cleanup-tmp-dir" flag for `kubeadm reset`. It will cleanup the contents of `/etc/kubernetes/tmp`. The flag is off by default. ([#112172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112172), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))