- [beta] Added ability to authenticate/authorize access to the Kubelet API ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubelet-authentication-authorization/)) ([kubernetes/features#89](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/89))
- **AWS**

* fix kubelet fail to delete orphaned pod directory when the kubelet's pods directory (default is "/var/lib/kubelet/pods") symbolically links to another disk device's directory ([#79094](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79094), [@gaorong](https://github.com/gaorong))

  optional EventSeries series = 3;

  // reportingController is the name of the controller that emitted this Event, e.g. `kubernetes.io/kubelet`.
  // This field cannot be empty for new Events.
  // +optional
  optional string reportingController = 4;

  // reportingInstance is the ID of the controller instance, e.g. `kubelet-xyzf`.
  // This field cannot be empty for new Events and it can have at most 128 characters.
  // +optional

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.28.0
  - kubelet <= v1.27.4
  - kubelet <= v1.26.7
  - kubelet <= v1.25.12
  - kubelet <= v1.24.16

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.28.1
  - kubelet v1.27.5
  - kubelet v1.26.8
  - kubelet v1.25.13
  - kubelet v1.24.17

This vulnerability was reported by Tomer Peled @tomerpeled92

- Following metrics from kubelet are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level:
  `kubelet_container_log_filesystem_used_bytes`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_capacity_bytes`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_used_bytes`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_inodes`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_inodes_free`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_inodes_used`
  `plugin_manager_total_plugins`

* Fix the bug that query Kubelet's stats summary with CRI stats enabled results in error. ([#53107](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53107), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

* [alpha] Rotation of the server TLS certificate on the kubelet. See [TLS bootstrapping - approval controller](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubelet-tls-bootstrapping/#approval-controller).

* [alpha] Rotation of the client TLS certificate on the kubelet. See [TLS bootstrapping - kubelet configuration](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubelet-tls-bootstrapping/#kubelet-configuration).

directories outside of the volume, including on the host filesystem.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.22.0 - v1.22.1
  - kubelet v1.21.0 - v1.21.4
  - kubelet v1.20.0 - v1.20.10
  - kubelet <= v1.19.14

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.22.2
  - kubelet v1.21.5
  - kubelet v1.20.11
  - kubelet v1.19.15

This vulnerability was reported by Fabricio Voznika and Mark Wolters of Google.

- kubelet: Users can now enable the alpha NodeLease feature gate to have the Kubelet create and periodically renew a Lease in the kube-node-lease namespace. The lease duration defaults to 40s, and can be configured via the kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration's NodeLeaseDurationSeconds field. ([#66257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66257),...

// they use the node-driver-registrar sidecar container, the kubelet will
// automatically populate the CSINode object for the CSI driver as part of
// kubelet plugin registration.
// CSINode has the same name as a node. If the object is missing, it means either
// there are no CSI Drivers available on the node, or the Kubelet version is low
// enough that it doesn't create this object.