SIG Windows is also including several addition to this release:
 - Direct Server Return (DSR) mode support, allowing large numbers of services to scale up efficiently
 - Windows containers  now honor CPU limits

* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- 'The `IPv6DualStack` feature gate for external cloud providers was removed.
  (The feature became GA in 1.23 and the gate was removed for all other
  components several releases ago.) If you were still manually
  enabling it you must stop now.' ([#116255](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116255), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- DRA: fixed several issues related to `allocationMode: all`. ([#127565](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127565), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

  * [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): cri-o v1.10 updated CRI version to v1alpha2 and made several bug and stability fixes. [@mrunalp]
  * [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): frakti v1.10 implemented GCE Persistent Disk as a high performance volume, fixed several bugs, added ARM64 support, and passed all CRI validation conformance tests and node e2e conformance tests. [@resouer]

- Migrate scheduling_queue.go to structured logging ([#98358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98358), [@tanjing2020](https://github.com/tanjing2020)) [SIG Scheduling]
- Several flags related to the deprecated dockershim which are present in the kubelet command line are now deprecated. ([#98730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98730), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Node]

* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

For the 1.13 release, SIG API Machinery is happy to announce that the [dry-run functionality](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#dry-run) is now beta.

### SIG Auth

- The `IPTablesOwnershipCleanup` feature (KEP-3178) is now GA; kubelet no longer
  creates the `KUBE-MARK-DROP` chain (which has been unused for several releases)
  or the `KUBE-MARK-MASQ` chain (which is now only created by kube-proxy). ([#119374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119374), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

*   AWS SDK is updated to version 1.12.7 ([#53561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53561),[ @justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

### **Azure**

*   Fixed several issues with properly provisioning Azure disk storage ([#55927](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55927),[ @andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))