Merge pull request #95476 from amolnar-rh/OCPBUGS-57196

OCPBUGS-57196#Add RN for extended loopback cert validity for kube-apiserver

Author: michaelryanpeter

release_notes/ocp-4-17-release-notes.adoc

@@ -1228,6 +1228,12 @@ If you have Operator projects that were previously created or maintained with Op
 
 * xref:../operators/operator_sdk/java/osdk-java-updating-projects.adoc#osdk-upgrading-projects_osdk-java-updating-projects[Updating Java-based Operator projects]
 
+[discrete]
+[id="ocp-4-17-notable-technical-changes-loopback-cert_{context}"]
+=== Extended loopback certificate validity to three years for kube-apiserver
+
+Previously, the self-signed loopback certificate for the Kubernetes API Server expired after one year. With this release, the expiration date of the certificate is extended to three years.
+
 [id="ocp-4-17-deprecated-removed-features_{context}"]
 == Deprecated and removed features