backend storage, etcd, has a new release 3.5.0 and the community embraced it. The new release comes with improvements to the Security, performance, monitoring and developer experience. There are numerous bug fixes to lease objects causing memory leaks, and compact operation causing deadlocks and more. A couple of new features are also introduced like the migration to structured logging and build in log rotation. The release comes with a detailed future roadmap to implement a solution to traffic overload....

- Api: validation of a `PodSpec` now rejects invalid `ResourceClaim` and `ResourceClaimTemplate` names. For a pod, the name generated for the `ResourceClaim` when using a template also must be valid. ([#116576](https://github.co...

([#45003](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45003), [@krmayankk](https://github.com/krmayankk))

* Deployments are updated to use (1) a more stable hashing algorithm (fnv) than the previous one (adler) and (2) a hashing collision avoidance mechanism that will ensure new rollouts will not block on hashing collisions anymore. ([#44774](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44774), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))([kubernetes/features#287](https://github.com/...

### Structured logging

SIG Instrumentation standardized the structure of log messages and references to Kubernetes objects. Structured logging makes parsing, processing, storing, querying and analyzing logs easier. New methods in the klog library enforce log message structure.

### EndpointSlices are now enabled by default

    - [API-Machinery](#api-machinery-1)
    - [Network](#network-1)
    - [Azure](#azure-1)
    - [Scheduling](#scheduling)
    - [Other changes](#other-changes)
  - [Non-user-facing Changes](#non-user-facing-changes)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
- [v1.10.0-rc.1](#v1100-rc1)
  - [Downloads for v1.10.0-rc.1](#downloads-for-v1100-rc1)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-14)

- The `CloudDualStackNodeIPs` feature is now `beta`, meaning that when using
  an external cloud provider that has been updated to support the feature,
  you can pass comma-separated dual-stack `--node-ips` to `kubelet` and have

feature gate `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` to GA and locked it to `true` by default. The kubelet related ConfigMap and RBAC rules are now locked to have a simplified naming `*kubelet-config` instead of the legacy naming `*kubelet-config-x.yy`, where `x.yy` was the version of the control plane. If you have previously used the old naming format with `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap=false`, you must manually copy the config map from `kube-system/kubelet-config-x.yy` to `kube-system/kubelet-config` before...

- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120656), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- Kubeadm: instead of passing the etcd flag --experimental-initial-corrupt-check, set the InitialCorruptCheck=true etcd feature gate, and instead of passing the --experimental-watch-progress-notify-interval flag, pass its graduated variant --watch-progress-notify-interval. ([#132838](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132838),...

- Kubeadm: graduated the `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` feature gate to Beta and enabled the feature by default. This implies that 1) for new clusters kubeadm will start using the `kube-system/kubelet-config` naming scheme for the kubelet ConfigMap and RBAC rules, instead of the legacy `kubelet-config-x.yy` naming. 2) during upgrade, kubeadm will only write the new scheme ConfigMap and RBAC objects. To disable the feature you can pass `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap: false` in the kubeadm config...