// sends `null` when no policy is set and the intended behavior is that the
	// service account should inherit parent policy.
	//
	// However, for a policy like `{"Statement":[]}`, the intention is to not
	// provide any permissions via the session policy - i.e. the service account
	// can do nothing (such a JSON could be generated by an external application

- Kubeadm: avoid detection of the container runtime for commands that do not need it ([#97625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97625), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API
- We improved readiness detection and smoothing to work well in a larger variety or use cases

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.

- Fix detection of image filesystem, disk metrics for devicemapper, detection of OOM Kills on 5.0+ linux kernels. ([#92919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92919), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation...

- Revert "fix: handle socket file detection on Windows" ([#126976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126976), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant)) [SIG Node]

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where the static pod changes detection logic is inconsistent with kubelet ([#118069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118069), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

- Kubeadm: avoid detection of the container runtime for commands that do not need it ([#97849](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97849), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added

* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

- `kubeadm`: Fixed the bug where it always did CRI detection when `--config` was passed, even if it is not required by the subcommand. ([#120828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120828), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))