- Fixed a regression preventing garbage collection of RBAC role and binding objects ([#90534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90534), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG Auth]

### Node

SIG Node iterated on the ability to support more workloads with better performance and improved reliability.  Alpha features were improved around hardware accelerator support, device plugins enablement, and cpu pinning policies to enable us to graduate these features to beta in a future release.  In addition, a number of reliability and performance enhancements were made across the node to help operators in production.

### OpenStack

* fix: make azure disk URI as case insensitive ([#79020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79020), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

- When a CNI plugin returns dual-stack pod IPs, kubelet will now try to respect the
  "primary IP family" of the cluster by picking a primary pod IP of the same family
  as the (primary) node IP, rather than assuming that the CNI plugin returned the IPs
  in the order the administrator wanted (since some CNI plugins don't allow

    /**
     * Sets the certificate pinner that constrains which certificates are trusted. By default HTTPS
     * connections rely on only the [SSL socket factory][sslSocketFactory] to establish trust.
     * Pinning certificates avoids the need to trust certificate authorities.
     */
    fun certificatePinner(certificatePinner: CertificatePinner) =
      apply {
        if (certificatePinner != this.certificatePinner) {

## Changelog since v1.4.1

### Other notable changes

* Fix base image pinning during upgrades via cluster/gce/upgrade.sh ([#33147](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33147), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))

* Change `kubeadm create token` to default to the group that almost everyone will want to use.  The group is system:bootstrappers:kubeadm:default-node-token and is the group that kubeadm sets up, via an RBAC binding, for auto-approval (system:certificates.k8s.io:certificatesigningrequests:nodeclient). ([#53512](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53512), [@jbeda](https://github.com/jbeda))

- Clear pod binding cache on bind error to make sure stale pod binding cache will not be used. ([#71212](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71212), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

- Volume binding: report UnschedulableAndUnresolvable status instead of an error when bound PVs not found ([#96291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96291), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc)) [SIG Apps, Scheduling and Storage]

  - Clone `kubernetes/kubernetes` in `update-vendor.sh` shallowly, instead of fetching all revisions
  - Speed up binpacking by reducing the number of PreFilter calls (call once per pod instead of #pods*#nodes times)
  - Speed up finding unneeded nodes by 5x+ in very large clusters by reducing the number of PreFilter calls
  - Expose `--max-nodes-total` as a metric
  - Errors in `IncreaseSize` changed from type `apiError` to `cloudProviderError`