Same as previous v3.5 releases. Let's agree what work should be included in release and track the work. The list presented below will be evolving as community decides to cut/include fixes.

Issues/PRs that should be included for v3.5.5:

• panic: unexpected error during txn #14110
• etcd detects data corruption by default #14039
  • Fix corruption checks v3.5 #14282
• Restriction on MaxRequestSize and maxWALEntrySize #14114
  • [3.5] Restrict the max size of each WAL entry to the remaining size of the WAL file #14127
• client/v3: do not overwrite authTokenBundle on dial #12992
  • [3.5] client/v3: do not overwrite authTokenBundle on dial #14132
• [3.5] Backport two lease related bug fixes to 3.5 #14087
• Etcd unexpected request time consumption with HTTPs v3 API #14077
  • [3.5] Support configuring MaxConcurrentStreams for http2 #14219
• Client: fix check for WithPrefix op #14182
  • [3.5] Fix Client: IsOptsWithPrefix returns false even if WithPrefix() is included #14187
• server/auth: users/authentication data not loaded on member startup #14355
  • [release-3.5] server,test: refresh cache on each NewAuthStore #14409
• ETCD has not been building artefacts for darwin/arm64 to support Apple Silicon #14001
• [release-3.5]etcdctl: allow move-leader to connect to multiple endpoints #14434

Issues/PRs not required for v3.5.5:

• Backport pull/13525 to 3.5 #14048
• Doc: provide more clarify to the usage of check perf command #14111
• AuthStore::Recover is not invalidating caches.  #13883
• Memory leak with distributed tracing enabled #13990
• Inconsistent revision and data after --force-new-cluster #14009
• ETCD Unstable under high sustained load #14072

Please feel free to suggest new additional backports/issues worth investigating so we can discuss if they should be included.
cc @ptabor @ahrtr @spzala