- FieldManager no longer owns fields that get reset before the object is persisted (e.g. "status wiping"). ([#99661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99661), [@kevindelgado](https://github.com/kevindelgado)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Testing]

### SIG-vmware

SIG-VMware development was primarily focused on fixing bugs for the in-tree cloud provider, starting the development of the external cloud provider and taking ownership of the cluster-api provider for vSphere.

In-tree cloud provider bug fixes and improvements included:
- Adding initial Zones support to the provider using vSphere Tags

- Kubeadm: fix a bug when using external CA mode and trying to upgrade to 1.29 using "kubeadm upgrade apply". Show a warning that kubeadm cannot sign the new "super-admin.conf" as the host does not have a CA and show some instructions on how to manually migrate to the separate "admin.conf" and "super-admin.conf"...

or <a href="#Function_literals">function literal</a> reserves
storage for a named variable.

Calling the built-in function <a href="#Allocation"><code>new</code></a>
or taking the address of a <a href="#Composite_literals">composite literal</a>
allocates storage for a variable at run time.
Such an anonymous variable is referred to via a (possibly implicit)

### Failing Test

- Kubelet: the HostPort implementation in dockershim was not taking into consideration the HostIP field, causing that the same HostPort can not be used with different IP addresses.

* Allow missing keys in templates by default ([#39486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39486), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))
* Add error message when trying to use clusterrole with namespace in kubectl ([#36424](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36424), [@xilabao](https://github.com/xilabao))

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  change, rather than reliably updating every 60 seconds (or whatever). If you
  are trying to monitor for whether iptables updates are failing, the

### Introducing Windows CSI support alpha for Kubernetes