- Fixed a regression in `1.27.0` that resulted in `missing metadata in converted object` errors when modifying objects for multi-version custom resource definitions with a conversion strategy of `None`. ([#117301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117301), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))

- In text format, log messages that previously used quoting to prevent multi-line output (for example, text="some \"quotation\", a\nline break") will now be printed with more readable multi-line output without the escape sequences. ([#107103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107103), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

- Openstack: Do not delete managed LB in case of security group reconciliation errors ([#82264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82264), [@multi-io](https://github.com/multi-io)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

    - [Container Runtime Interface (CRI) v1 is default](#container-runtime-interface-cri-v1-is-default)
    - [Structured logging graduate to Beta](#structured-logging-graduate-to-beta)
    - [Simplified Multi-point plugin configuration for scheduler](#simplified-multi-point-plugin-configuration-for-scheduler)
    - [CSI Migration updates](#csi-migration-updates)
  - [Urgent Upgrade Notes](#urgent-upgrade-notes)

- Fix repeatedly acquire the inhibit lock ([#98088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98088), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed bug that caused cAdvisor to incorrectly detect single-socket multi-NUMA topology. ([#99207](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99207), [@iwankgb](https://github.com/iwankgb)) [SIG Node]

* Substitute gcloud regex with regexp ([#35346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35346), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* Remove support for multi-architecture code in `kubeadm`, which was released untested. ([#35124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35124), [@errordeveloper](https://github.com/errordeveloper))

- Fixed bug that caused cAdvisor to incorrectly detect single-socket multi-NUMA topology. ([#99209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99209), [@iwankgb](https://github.com/iwankgb)) [SIG Node]

- The `kubectl create service` now respects the `namespace` flag. ([#101005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101005), [@zxh326](https://github.com/zxh326))
- The `kubectl get` now truncates multi-line strings to avoid breaking printing ([#103514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103514), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

  - Enhanced persistence capabilities (eg: `StorageClasses`, new volume plugins)
  - New resources and scheduler features (eg: `ScheduledJob` resource, pod/node affinity/anti-affinity)
- **Cluster Federation**
  - Global Multi-cluster HTTP(S) Ingress across GCE and GKE clusters.
  - Expanded support for federated hybrid-cloud resources including ReplicaSets, Secrets, Namespaces and Events.
- **Security**

- Openstack: Do not delete managed LB in case of security group reconciliation errors ([#82264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82264), [@multi-io](https://github.com/multi-io)) [SIG Cloud Provider]