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- kubeadm: When certificates are present in joining a new control plane now ensures that they match at least the required SANs ([#73093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73093), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))

- Kubeadm: fixed the bug that `kubeadm certs generate-csr` command does not remove duplicated SANs ([#107982](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107982), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

* kubeadm: support sub-domain wildcards in certificate SANs ([#76920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76920), [@sempr](https://github.com/sempr))

### External credential providers

Kubernetes client [credential plugins](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authentication/#client-go-credential-plugins) have been in beta since 1.11, a few eons ago. With the release of Kubernetes 1.22, this feature set graduates to stable. The GA feature set includes improved support for plugins that provide interactive login flows.