APIs and interfaces consumed by cloud providers today. This involved auditing the cloud provider APIs for anything that should be deprecated as well as adding changes where necessary. In addition, SIG Cloud Provider has begun exploratory work around having a “cloud provider” e2e test suite which can be used to test common cloud provider functionalities with resources such as nodes and load balancers.

We are also continuing our long running effort to extract all the existing cloud providers...

addition to `--grace-period=0`.  This prevents users from accidentally force deleting pods without being aware of the consequences of force deletion.  Force deleting pods for resources like StatefulSets can result in multiple pods with the same name having running processes in the cluster, which may lead to data corruption or data inconsistency when using shared storage or common API endpoints. ([#35484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35484), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))...

### Feature

- Fixed an issue where requests sent by the KMSv2 service would be rejected due to having an invalid authority header. ([#126930](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126930), [@Ruddickmg](https://github.com/Ruddickmg)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

administrators of Kubernetes may want to control that new Service CIDRs added to the cluster do not overlap with other networks on the cluster, that only belong to a specific range of IPs. Administrators may also prefer to retain the existing behavior of only having one ServiceCIDR per cluster. You can use `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` to achieve this. ([#128971](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128971), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps, Architecture, Auth, CLI, Etcd, Network, Release...

## Changelog since v1.20.4

## Changes by Kind

### Failing Test

- Fix handing special characters in the volume path on Windows ([#99008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99008), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong)) [SIG Storage]

- Fixed a regression introduced in 1.22.4 where Azure load balancers were not kept up to date with the state of cluster nodes. In particular, nodes that are not in the ready state and are not newly created (i.e. not having the `node.cloudprovider.kubernetes.io/uninitialized` taint) now get removed from Azure load balancers. ([#109933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109933), [@ricky-rav](https://github.com/ricky-rav)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- kubeadm: use etcd's /health endpoint for a HTTP liveness probe on localhost instead of having a custom health check using etcdctl ([#81385](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81385), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

## Changelog since v1.18.16

## Changes by Kind

### Failing Test

- Fix handing special characters in the volume path on Windows ([#99138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99138), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong)) [SIG Storage]

### Bug or Regression

- Fixed a regression introduced in 1.23.0 where Azure load balancers were not kept up to date with the state of cluster nodes. In particular, nodes that are not in the ready state and are not newly created (i.e. not having the `node.cloudprovider.kubernetes.io/uninitialized` taint) now get removed from Azure load balancers. ([#109932](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109932), [@ricky-rav](https://github.com/ricky-rav)) [SIG Cloud Provider]