* Provide flags to use etcd3 backed storage ([#24455](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24455), [@hongchaodeng](https://github.com/hongchaodeng))

### Other notable changes

* Fix hyperkube's layer caching, and remove --make-symlinks at build time ([#25693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25693), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

// a synchronous manner.
func mustReplicate(ctx context.Context, bucket, object string, mopts mustReplicateOptions) (dsc ReplicateDecision) {
	// object layer not initialized we return with no decision.
	if newObjectLayerFn() == nil {
		return
	}

	// Disable server-side replication on object prefixes which are excluded

- Kubeadm: the command "kubeadm token create" now has a "--certificate-key" flag that can be used for the formation of join commands for control-planes with automatic copy of certificates ([#84591](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84591), [@TheLastProject](https://github.com/TheLastProject))

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### SIG Network

This has **several benefits**, one of the main ones is that now the parameters of your functions with `Annotated` would **not be affected** at all.

          <type>String</type>
        </field>
        <field>
          <name>roles</name>
          <version>3.0.0+</version>
          <description>
            The roles the contributor plays in the project. Each role is described by a
            {@code role} element, the body of which is a role name. This can also be used to
            describe the contribution.
          </description>

- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled `PodDisruptionConditions`
  by default, that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting
  pods that contained duplicated field keys (environmental variables with repeated keys or

- Fixed a regression in default 1.26 configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 

- The `KubeletSeparateDiskGC` feature gate is now beta. This split image filesystem feature enables kubelet to perform garbage collection of images (read-only layers) and/or containers (writeable layers) deployed on separate filesystems. gate is now beta. ([#126205](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126205), [@kwilczynski](https://github.com/kwilczynski))