* 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))

            Optional[Dict[str, Union[str, Any]]],
            Doc(
                """
                A dictionary with the contact information for the exposed API.

                It can contain several fields.

                * `name`: (`str`) The name of the contact person/organization.
                * `url`: (`str`) A URL pointing to the contact information. MUST be in
                    the format of a URL.

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

Users of FlexVolume should move their workloads to CSI driver.

### Deprecation of klog specific flags

To simplify the code base, several [logging flags got marked as deprecated](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/system-logs/#klog) in Kubernetes 1.23.

message QuobyteVolumeSource {
  // registry represents a single or multiple Quobyte Registry services
  // specified as a string as host:port pair (multiple entries are separated with commas)
  // which acts as the central registry for volumes
  optional string registry = 1;

  // volume is a string that references an already created Quobyte volume by name.
  optional string volume = 2;

### Bug or Regression

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

* AWS: Recognize ca-central-1 region ([#38410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38410), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Add TLS conf for Go1.7 ([#38600](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38600), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

  * [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]

- 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))