- Introduce alpha support for exec-based container registry credential provider plugins in the kubelet. ([#94196](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94196), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Node and Release]

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure: avoid setting cached Sku when updating VMSS and VMSS instances ([#102005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102005), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- client-go and kubectl no longer write cached discovery files with world-accessible file permissions. ([#77874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77874), [@yuchengwu](https://github.com/yuchengwu))

  - The disk-cached discovery client is moved from k8s.io/client-go/discovery to k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/disk.
The memory-cached discovery client is moved from k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached to k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/memory.
([#72214](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72214), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

* [beta] [CRI-O](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o) v1.0.0-alpha.0. It has passed all e2e tests. ([release notes](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.0))

* [beta] [Frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti) v1.0. It has passed all node conformance tests. ([release notes](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti/releases/tag/v1.0))



### **Scheduling**