(N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that is older than the `kubeadm` version (N-1 maximum) then the skew between the kubelet and control plane would become a maximum of N-2. ([#120825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120825), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))...

  - The `kubeadm upgrade node config` and `kubeadm upgrade node experimental-control-plane` commands are deprecated in favor of `kubeadm upgrade node`, and will be removed in a future release. ([#78408](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78408), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

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- kubeadm: Promoted the feature gate `ControlPlaneKubeletLocalMode` to Beta. By default, kubeadm will use the local kube-apiserver endpoint for the kubelet when creating a cluster with `kubeadm init` or when joining control plane nodes with `kubeadm join`. Enabling the feature gate also affects the...

- github.com/bufbuild/protovalidate-go: [v0.9.1](https://github.com/bufbuild/protovalidate-go/tree/v0.9.1)
- github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane/envoy: [v1.32.4](https://github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane/tree/envoy/v1.32.4)
- github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane/ratelimit: [v0.1.0](https://github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane/tree/ratelimit/v0.1.0)
- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: [v4.0.4](https://github.com/go-jose/go-jose/tree/v4.0.4)

- Restores priority of static control plane pods in the cluster/gce/manifests control-plane manifests ([#89970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89970), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Node]


# v1.18.1

  - Please adapt your tooling built on top of kubeadm to use the "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane" label.
  - The taint applied to control-plane nodes "node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule" is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release after a GA deprecation period.

are hence enabled by default. This will be fixed in a future release.
[#38593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38593)
* Federation control plane can be upgraded by updating the image
fields in the `Deployment` specs of the control plane components.
However, federation control plane upgrades were not tested in this
release [38537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38537)

## Notable Changes to Existing Behavior

- HA improvements:
  - `kubeadm join --experimental-control-plane` can now be used to join control plane instances to an existing cluster.
  - `kubeadm upgrade node experimental-control-plane` can now be used for upgrading secondary control plane instances created with `kubeadm join --experimental-control-plane`.
Multi-arch support (EXPERIMENTAL):

ControlPlaneKubeletLocalMode feature gate. It can be used to tell kubeadm to use the local kube-apiserver endpoint for the kubelet when creating a cluster with "kubeadm init" or when joining control plane nodes with "kubeadm join".  The "kubeadm join" workflow now includes two new experimental phases called "control-plane-join-etcd" and "kubelet-wait-bootstrap" which will be used when the feature gate is enabled. This phases will be marked as non-experimental when ControlPlaneKubeletLocalMode becomes GA. During...