- kubeadm: fix "certificate-authority" files not being pre-loaded when using file discovery ([#80966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80966), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
- Add instruction to setup "Application Default Credentials" to run GCE Windows e2e tests locally. ([#81337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81337), [@YangLu1031](https://github.com/YangLu1031))

- Updated pause image to version 3.5, which now runs per default as pseudo user and group `65535:65535`. This does not have any effect on remote container runtimes like CRI-O and containerd, which setup the pod sandbox user and group on their own. ([#100292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100292), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

# Erasure code sizing guide

## Toy Setups

Capacity constrained environments, MinIO will work but not recommended for production.

| servers | drives (per node) | stripe_size | parity chosen (default) | tolerance for reads (servers) | tolerance for writes (servers) |
|--------:|------------------:|------------:|------------------------:|------------------------------:|-------------------------------:|

- Remove ready file and its directory (which is created during volume SetUp) during emptyDir volume TearDown. ([#95770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95770), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97)) [SIG Storage]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

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KEY:

- Kubelet: The `--azure-container-registry-config` flag has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release, please use `--image-credential-provider-config` and `--image-credential-provider-bin-dir` to setup acr credential provider instead. ([#118596](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118596), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Node]

# window size, and how much to save for an application buffer.
net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale=1

# disable RFC2861 behavior
net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 0

# Fix faulty network setups
net.ipv4.tcp_mtu_probing=1
net.ipv4.tcp_base_mss=1280

# Disable ipv6
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=1

[bootloader]

- Fixed race condition in GCE between containerized mounter setup in the kubelet. ([#112195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112195), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))

     * Defines how search results are ordered when no specific sort is requested.
     */
    @Size(max = 1000)
    public String defaultSortValue;

    /**
     * Virtual host configuration for multi-tenant setups.
     * Allows different search configurations based on the request host.
     */
    @Size(max = 10000)
    public String virtualHostValue;

    /**

## Creating a hotfix branch

Customers in MinIO are allowed LTS on any release they choose to standardize. Production setups seldom change and require maintenance. Hotfix branches are such maintenance branches that allow customers to operate a production cluster without drastic changes to their deployment.

## Backporting a fix