`system:aggregate-to-edit` role no longer includes write access to the Endpoints API. For new Kubernetes 1.22 clusters, the `edit` and `admin` roles will no longer include that access in newly created Kubernetes 1.22 clusters. This will have no affect on existing clusters upgrading to Kubernetes 1.22. To retain write access to Endpoints in the aggregated `edit` and `admin` roles for newly created 1.22 clusters, refer to https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/29025. ([#103704](https://github.com/k...

### CVE-2023-3676: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.28.0
  - kubelet <= v1.27.4
  - kubelet <= v1.26.7
  - kubelet <= v1.25.12

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods and persistent volumes on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they are using an in-tree storage plugin for Windows nodes.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet >= v1.8.0

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.28.4

  * Also, if the value of adminId in the in-tree Storageclass is different from admin, the adminSecretName mentioned in the in-tree Storageclass has to be patched with the base64 value of the adminId...

* The kube-apiserver has improved behavior for both startup and shutdown sequences and also now exposes `/readyz` for readiness checking. Readyz includes all existing healthz checks but also adds a shutdown check. When a cluster admin initiates a shutdown, the kube-apiserver will try to process existing requests (for the duration of request timeout) before killing the apiserver process.   ([#78458](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78458), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))...

  - [alpha] Access Review APIs expose authorization engine to external inquiries for delegation, inspection, and debugging ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/authorization/)) ([kubernetes/features#37](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/37))

## Major updates and release themes

* Kubernetes now supports up to 5,000 nodes via etcd v3, which is enabled by default.
* [Role-based access control (RBAC)](https://kubernetes.io//docs/admin/authorization/rbac) has graduated to beta, and defines secure default roles for control plane, node, and controller components.

 - `kubeadm`: a separate "super-admin.conf" file is now deployed. The User in `admin.conf` is now bound to a new RBAC Group `kubeadm:cluster-admins` that has `cluster-admin` `ClusterRole` access. The User in `super-admin.conf` is now bound to the `system:masters` built-in super-powers / break-glass Group that can bypass RBAC. Before this change, the default `admin.conf` was bound to `system:masters` Group, which was undesired. Executing `kubeadm...

### **Security**
#### Admission Control
* [alpha] Add [extensible external admission control](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/extensible-admission-controllers/).

#### TLS Bootstrapping
* [alpha] Rotation of the server TLS certificate on the kubelet. See [TLS bootstrapping - approval controller](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubelet-tls-bootstrapping/#approval-controller).

  * Run multiple schedulers in parallel, e.g. one or more custom schedulers
alongside the default Kubernetes scheduler, using pod annotations to select
among the schedulers for each pod. Documentation is [here](http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/multiple-schedulers.md), design doc is [here](docs/proposals/multiple-schedulers.md).
  * More expressive node affinity syntax, and support for “soft” node affinity.