- Added two client certificate metrics for exec auth:
    - `rest_client_certificate_expiration_seconds` a gauge reporting the lifetime of the current client certificate. Reports the time of expiry in seconds since January 1, 1970 UTC.

* fix race condition when attach azure disk in vmss ([#71992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71992), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed kubelet reporting "resource name may not be empty" when mounting a volume very quickly after unmount. ([#71074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71074), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

* Fixed SELinux relabeling of CSI volumes. ([#64026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64026), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* Fixed error reporting of CSI volumes attachment. ([#63303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63303), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

### Bug or Regression

- Disable aufs module for gce clusters ([#103831](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103831), [@lizhuqi](https://github.com/lizhuqi)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix kube-apiserver metric reporting for the deprecated watch path of /api/<version>/watch/... ([#104190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104190), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

 * to register the SMB protocol handler.
 * <p>
 * The userinfo component of the SMB URL ({@code domain;user:pass}) must
 * be URL encoded if it contains reserved characters. According to RFC 2396
 * these characters are non US-ASCII characters and most meta characters
 * however jCIFS will work correctly with anything but '@' which is used
 * to delimit the userinfo component from the server and '%' which is the

- The `apiserver.latency.k8s.io/decode-response-object` annotation was added to the audit log to record the decoding time. ([#121512](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121512), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix kube-apiserver metric reporting for the deprecated watch path of /api/<version>/watch/... ([#104188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104188), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

 * to register the SMB protocol handler.
 * <p>
 * The userinfo component of the SMB URL ({@code domain;user:pass}) must
 * be URL encoded if it contains reserved characters. According to RFC 2396
 * these characters are non US-ASCII characters and most meta characters
 * however jCIFS will work correctly with anything but '@' which is used

    * 2. IPv4: api-server will assign an IP from a `service-cluster-ip-range` that is `ipv4` (either the primary or the secondary, according to how they were configured).
    * 2. IPv6: api-server will assign an IP from a `service-cluster-ip-range` that is `ipv6` (either the primary or the secondary, according to how they were configured).
    * Notes (v1.16):
    * 1. IPVS is the only proxy supported (as of v1.16 ) by Dualstack.

* Replica set conditions API ([#33905](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33905), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))
* etcd3: avoid unnecessary decoding in etcd3 client  ([#34435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34435), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))