- Custom resource requests with fieldValidation=Strict consistently require apiVersion and kind, matching non-strict requests ([#109019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109019), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

* 📝 Add external link: Building simple E-Commerce with NuxtJS and FastAPI. PR [#3271](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/3271) by [@ShahriyarR](https://github.com/ShahriyarR).
* 📝 Add external link: Serve a machine learning model using Sklearn, FastAPI and Docker. PR [#2974](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/2974) by [@rodrigo-arenas](https://github.com/rodrigo-arenas).

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Build etcd image v3.5.12 ([#123069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123069), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni)) [SIG API Machinery and Etcd]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Fixes issue where you can't attach more than 15 GCE Persistent Disks to c2, n2, m1, m2 machine types. ([#88602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88602), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG Storage]

- OpenAPI V2 will no longer publish aggregated apiserver OpenAPI for group-versions not matching the APIService specified group version ([#123625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123625), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- golang.org/x/crypto: v0.16.0 → v0.21.0

- Kube-apiserver: resolved a regression that treated `304 Not Modified` responses from aggregated API servers as internal errors ([#112530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112530), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

- OpenAPI V2 will no longer publish aggregated apiserver OpenAPI for group-versions not matching the APIService specified group version ([#123624](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123624), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- golang.org/x/crypto: v0.16.0 → v0.21.0

- For resources built into an apiserver, the server now logs at `-v=3` whether it is using watch caching. ([#109175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109175), [@MikeSpreitzer](https://github.com/MikeSpreitzer)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Mark Job onPodConditions as optional in pod failure policy ([#120210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120210), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

### Feature

  - [Urgent Upgrade Notes](#urgent-upgrade-notes)
    - [(No, really, you MUST do this before you upgrade)](#no-really-you-must-do-this-before-you-upgrade)
  - [Major Themes](#major-themes)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle)
    - [SIG Instrumentation](#sig-instrumentation)
    - [SIG Network](#sig-network)