- The pod phase lifecycle guarantees that terminal Pods, those whose states are Unready or Succeeded, can not regress and will have all container stopped. Hence, terminal Pods will never be reachable and should not publish their IP addresses on the Endpoints or EndpointSlices, independently of the Service TolerateUnready option. ([#110258](https://github.com/kub...

### Auth

- Fixed OpenID Connect (OIDC) token refresh when the client secret contains a special character. ([#76914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76914), [@tsuna](https://github.com/tsuna))

* With this PR, kubectl and other RestClient's using the AuthProvider framework can make OIDC authenticated requests, and, if there is a refresh token present, the tokens will be refreshed as needed. ([#25270](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25270), [@bobbyrullo](https://github.com/bobbyrullo))

* client-go: shortens refresh period for token files to 1 minute to ensure auto-rotated projected service account tokens are read frequently enough. ([#72437](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72437), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    * request a client certificate from the API server during the boot cycle and pause

    * waiting for the request to be satisfied. It will continually refresh the certificate

   ([#121954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121954), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))
- The watch cache now waits until it is at least as fresh as the given requestedWatchRV if sendInitialEvents was requested.
   ([#122830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122830), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

        * Make the kubectl from k8s release the default on GCI

* Update cluster-proportional-autoscaler, fluentd-gcp, and kube-addon-manager, and kube-dns addons with refreshed base images containing fixes for CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9843, CVE-2017-2616, and CVE-2017-6512. ([#47454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47454), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))