declaratively. It handles versioning, multiple simultaneous rollouts,
aggregating status across all pods, maintaining application availability, and
rollback.
  * <strong>Automated cluster management: </strong>
     * Kubernetes clusters can now span zones within a cloud provider. Pods from a
service will be automatically spread across zones, enabling applications to
tolerate zone failure.

[https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213) sig-cluster-lifecycle has decided to phase out the cluster/ directory over the next couple of releases in favor of deployment automations maintained outside of the core repo and outside of kubernetes orgs. ([@kubernetes/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/teams/sig-cluster-lifecycle-misc))

    * Remove deprecated ContainerVM support from GCE kube-up.  ([#58247...

away from the usage of the word `master` in labels and taints. For new clusters, the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` will no longer be added to control plane nodes, only the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane` will be added. For clusters that are being upgraded to 1.24 with `kubeadm upgrade apply`, the command will remove the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` from existing control plane nodes. For new clusters, both the old taint `node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule` and...

with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account's secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

**Note**: This only impacts the cluster if the ServiceAccount admission plugin is used (most cluster should have this on by default as recommended in https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/ad...

  Please see [the KEP](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-storage/1710-selinux-relabeling#story-3-cluster-upgrade) how we expect to warn users before any SELinux behavior changes and how they can opt-out before. Note that this field and feature gate is useful only with clusters that run with SELinux enabled. No action is required on clusters without SELinux. ([#127981](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127981), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG...

- `-- kube-controller-manager`
  `--node-cidr-mask-size-ipv4 int32`     Default: 24. Mask size for IPv4 node-cidr in dual-stack cluster.
`--node-cidr-mask-size-ipv6 int32`     Default: 64. Mask size for IPv6 node-cidr in dual-stack cluster.

    These 2 flags can be used only for dual-stack clusters. For non dual-stack clusters, continue to use  `--node-cidr-mask-size` flag to configure the mask size.

- Kubeadm: during "join", don't re-add an etcd member if it already exists in the cluster. ([#92118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92118), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

  directly by unit tests.
* **`ESSingleNodeTestCase`**: This test case sets up a cluster that has a
  single node.
* **`ESIntegTestCase`**: An integration test case that creates a cluster that
  might have multiple nodes.
* **`ESRestTestCase`**: An integration tests that interacts with an external
  cluster via the REST API. This is used for Java based REST tests.

## 1. Overview

The SMB Witness Protocol enables rapid notification of resource changes in a clustered file server environment. It provides fast failover capabilities by allowing clients to register for notifications about server node availability, share movement, and other critical cluster events.

## 2. Protocol Specification Reference

- **MS-SWN**: Service Witness Protocol Specification

[@rosti](https://github.com/rosti)) Courtesy of SIG Cluster Lifecycle, SIG Release, and SIG Testing
- kubeadm - Feature-gates HighAvailability, SelfHosting, CertsInSecrets are now deprecated and can no longer be used for new clusters. Cluster updates using above feature-gates flag is not supported. ([#67786](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67786), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini)) Courtesy of SIG Cluster Lifecycle