* Add a new global option "--request-timeout" to the `kubectl` client ([#33958](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33958), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))
* Add support for admission controller based on namespace node selectors. ([#24980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24980), [@aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))

* Add a check for file size if the reading content returns empty ([#33976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33976), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
* Add a retry when reading a file content from a container ([#35560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35560), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

- Add "reason" field to image_garbage_collected_total metric, so admins can differentiate images that were collected for reason "age" vs "space" ([#123345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123345), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node]