([#122292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122292), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- JWTs used in service account and OIDC authentication are now strictly parsed to confirm that they use compact serialization. Other encodings were not previously accepted, but would result in different unspecific errors. ([#123540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123540), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

- Fix azure file migration panic ([#94853](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94853), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix bug in JSON path parser where an error occurs when a range is empty ([#95933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95933), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG API Machinery]

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* update gophercloud/gophercloud dependency for reauthentication fixes ([#45545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45545), [@stuart-warren](https://github.com/stuart-warren))
* fix sync loop health check with separating runtime errors ([#47124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47124), [@andyxning](https://github.com/andyxning))

- Stdin is now only passed to client-go exec credential plugins when it is detected to be an interactive terminal. Previously, it was passed to client-go exec plugins when **stdout** was detected to be an interactive terminal. ([#99654](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99654), [@ankeesler](https://github.com/ankeesler))...

* Fixed race conditions around devicemanager Allocate() and endpoint deletion. ([#60856](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60856), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

* kubelet initial flag parse now normalizes flags instead of exiting.  ([#61053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61053), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- Since golang 1.17 both net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR rejects leading zeros in the dot-decimal notation of IPv4 addresses,
  Kubernetes will keep allowing leading zeros on IPv4 address to not break the compatibility.
  IMPORTANT: Kubernetes interprets leading zeros on IPv4 addresses as decimal, users must not rely on parser alignment to not being impacted by the associated security advisory:

- Fix bug in JSON path parser where an error occurs when a range is empty ([#95933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95933), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG API Machinery]

* In case kubeadm can't access the current Kubernetes version remotely and fails to parse the git-based version it falls back to a static predefined value of k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/constants.CurrentKubernetesVersion. ([#72454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72454), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov))

* Fixed log fallback termination messages when using docker with journald log driver ([#52503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52503), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith))
* falls back to parse Docker runtime version as generic if not semver ([#54040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54040), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))