- Easier to get a cluster up and running (eg: `kubeadm`, intra-cluster bootstrapping)
  - Easier to understand a cluster (eg: API audit logs, server-based API defaults)
- **Stateful Application Support**
  - Enhanced persistence capabilities (eg: `StorageClasses`, new volume plugins)
  - New resources and scheduler features (eg: `ScheduledJob` resource, pod/node affinity/anti-affinity)
- **Cluster Federation**

- The scheduler implements QueueingHint in VolumeBinding plugin's CSIDriver event, which enhances the throughput of scheduling. ([#125171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125171), [@YamasouA](https://github.com/YamasouA)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]

* Make the informer library available for the go client library. ([#32718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32718), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))
* Added --log-facility flag to enhance dnsmasq logging ([#32422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32422), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

  `Yes, it IS his business!' said Five, `and I'll tell him--it
was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.'

  Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun `Well, of all
the unjust things--' when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as
she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly:  the
others looked round also, and all of them bowed low.

  `Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, `why you are