* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- DRA: fixed several issues related to `allocationMode: all`. ([#127565](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127565), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- 'The `IPv6DualStack` feature gate for external cloud providers was removed.
  (The feature became GA in 1.23 and the gate was removed for all other
  components several releases ago.) If you were still manually
  enabling it you must stop now.' ([#116255](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116255), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- Migrate scheduling_queue.go to structured logging ([#98358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98358), [@tanjing2020](https://github.com/tanjing2020)) [SIG Scheduling]
- Several flags related to the deprecated dockershim which are present in the kubelet command line are now deprecated. ([#98730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98730), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Node]

- The `IPTablesOwnershipCleanup` feature (KEP-3178) is now GA; kubelet no longer
  creates the `KUBE-MARK-DROP` chain (which has been unused for several releases)
  or the `KUBE-MARK-MASQ` chain (which is now only created by kube-proxy). ([#119374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119374), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

For the 1.13 release, SIG API Machinery is happy to announce that the [dry-run functionality](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#dry-run) is now beta.

### SIG Auth

### SIG Node

SIG-Node advanced several features and made incremental improvements in a few key topic areas this release.

- DRA: new API and several new features ([#125488](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125488), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, CLI, Cluster Lifecycle, Etcd, Node, Release, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

*   AWS SDK is updated to version 1.12.7 ([#53561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53561),[ @justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

### **Azure**

*   Fixed several issues with properly provisioning Azure disk storage ([#55927](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55927),[ @andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))