- Fixes a kube-apiserver log volume regression bug in default 1.27 configurations (introduced in 1.26, activated by the AggregatedDiscoveryEndpoint feature enablement in 1.27) ([#122096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122096), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh)) [SIG API Machinery]

  - `--service-account-key-file`, set to one or more files containing one or more public keys used to verify tokens.

- Single static pod files and pod files from http endpoints cannot be larger than 10 MB. HTTP probe payloads are now truncated to 10KB. ([#82669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82669), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))

- Kubeadm: during execution of the `certs check-expiration` command, treat the etcd CA as external if there is a missing etcd CA key file (etcd/ca.key) and perform the proper validation on certificates signed by the etcd CA....

- Fixed the issue where logging output of kube-scheduler configuration files included line breaks and escape characters. The output also attempted to output the configuration file in one section without showing the user a more readable format. ([#106228](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106228), [@sanchayanghosh](https://github.com/sanchayanghosh)) [SIG Scheduling]

## Urgent Upgrade Notes 

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

enhanced the "patches" functionality to be able to patch kubelet config files containing `v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration`. The new patch target is called `kubeletconfiguration` (e.g. patch file `kubeletconfiguration+json.json`).This makes it possible to apply node specific KubeletConfiguration options during `init`, `join` and `upgrade`, while the main `KubeletConfiguration` that is passed to `init` as part of the `--config` file can still act as the global stored in the cluster `KubeletConfiguration`....

[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

      - [Updates to apply](#updates-to-apply)
      - [Updates to edit](#updates-to-edit)
      - [Bug fixes](#bug-fixes)
      - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-14)
    - [Node Components](#node-components-2)
      - [Bug fixes](#bug-fixes-1)
    - [kube-controller-manager](#kube-controller-manager)
    - [kube-dns](#kube-dns)
    - [kube-proxy](#kube-proxy)

    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.