- E2e.test: removed the  `--viper-config` flag. If you were previously using this to pass flags to `e2e.test` via a file, you will need to pass them directly on the command line, e.g. `e2e.test --e2e-output-dir`. ([#102598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102598), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- `--log-flush-frequency` had no effect in several commands or was missing. Help and warning texts were not always using the right format for a command (`add_dir_header` instead of `add-dir-header`). Fixing this included cleaning up flag handling in component-base/logs: that package no longer adds flags to the global flag sets. Commands which want the klog and `--log-flush-frequency` flags must explicitly call `logs.AddFlags`;...

### General ephemeral volumes

  - apiserver-advertise-address / apiserver-bind-port: use either localAPIEndpoint from InitConfiguration or controlPlaneEndpoint from ClusterConfiguration.
  - cluster-name: use clusterName from ClusterConfiguration
  - cert-dir: use certificatesDir from ClusterConfiguration ([#94879](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94879), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubelet: the following dockershim related flags are also removed along with dockershim `--experimental-dockershim-root-directory`, `--docker-endpoint`, `--image-pull-progress-deadline`, `--network-plugin`, `--cni-conf-dir`, `--cni-bin-dir`, `--cni-cache-dir`, `--network-plugin-mtu`. ([#106907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106907), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

### Bug or Regression

- Cherry-pick #115769: Fix the problem Pod terminating stuck because of trying to umount not actual mounted dir. ([#119832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119832), [@cartermckinnon](https://github.com/cartermckinnon)) [SIG Node and Storage]

* kubeadm: prevent PSP blocking of upgrade image prepull by using a non-root user ([#77792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77792), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
* kubelet now accepts a --cni-cache-dir option, which defaults to /var/lib/cni/cache, where CNI stores cache files. ([#78908](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78908), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw))

* Docker digest validation is too strict ([#32627](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32627), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))
* Added new kubelet flags `--cni-bin-dir` and `--cni-conf-dir` to specify where CNI files are located. ([#32151](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32151), [@bboreham](https://github.com/bboreham))
    * Fixed CNI configuration on GCI platform when using CNI.

    - [DNS](#dns)
    - [DNS Autoscaler](#dns-autoscaler)
    - [Cluster Autoscaler](#cluster-autoscaler-1)
    - [Cluster Load Balancing](#cluster-load-balancing)
    - [etcd Empty Dir Cleanup](#etcd-empty-dir-cleanup)
    - [Fluentd](#fluentd)
    - [Heapster](#heapster)
    - [Registry](#registry)
  - [External Dependency Version Information](#external-dependency-version-information)

- kubeadm still generates RSA keys when deploying a node, but also accepts ECDSA
keys if they already exist in the directory specified in the `--cert-dir` option. ([#76390](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76390), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov))