- `kubectl run --env` no longer supports CSV parsing. To provide multiple environment
  variables, use the `--env` flag multiple times instead. Example: `--env ONE=1 --env TWO=2` instead of `--env ONE=1,TWO=2`.

- Removed deprecated command `kubectl stop`.

- Kubectl can now use http caching for the OpenAPI schema. The cache
  directory can be configured by passing the `--cache-dir` command line flag to kubectl.

  - Fix an error where existing nodes were not considered as destinations while finding place for pods in scale-down simulations
  - Remove redundant log lines and reduce severity around parsing kubeEnv
  - Don't treat nodes created by virtual kubelet as nodes from non-autoscaled node groups
  - Remove redundant logging around calculating node utilization

  
  1. If you experienced problems with Services not syncing to iptables correctly, you can disable the feature by passing `--feature-gates=MinimizeIPTablesRestore=false` to kube-proxy (and file a bug if this fixes it). (This might also be detected by seeing the value of kube-proxy's `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_partial_restore_failures_total` metric rising.)

- Fix a 1.28 regression in scheduler: a pod with concurrent events could incorrectly get moved to the unschedulable queue where it could got stuck until the next periodic purging after 5 minutes if there was no other event for it. ([#120445](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120445), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Scheduling]

backend storage, etcd, has a new release 3.5.0 and the community embraced it. The new release comes with improvements to the Security, performance, monitoring and developer experience. There are numerous bug fixes to lease objects causing memory leaks, and compact operation causing deadlocks and more. A couple of new features are also introduced like the migration to structured logging and build in log rotation. The release comes with a detailed future roadmap to implement a solution to traffic overload....

### Structured logging graduate to Beta

Structured logging reached its Beta milestone. Most log messages from kubelet and kube-scheduler have been converted. Users are encouraged to try out JSON output or parsing of the structured text format and provide feedback on possible solutions for the open issues, such as handling of multi-line strings in log values.

### Simplified Multi-point plugin configuration for scheduler

- Faster mount detection for linux kernel 5.10+ using openat2 speeding up pod churn rates. On Kernel versions less 5.10, it will fallback to using the original way of detecting mount points i.e by parsing /proc/mounts. ([#109217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109217), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))

- Kubeadm: improve the strict parsing of user YAML/JSON configuration files. Next to printing warnings for unknown and duplicate fields (current state), also print warnings for fields with incorrect case sensitivity - e.g. `controlPlaneEndpoint` (valid), `ControlPlaneEndpoint` (invalid)....

- The `horizontalpodautoscaling` and `clusterrole-aggregation` controllers now assume the `autoscaling/v1` and `rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1` APIs are available. If you disable those APIs and do not want to run those controllers, exclude them by passing `--controllers=-horizontalpodautoscaling` or `--controllers=-clusterrole-aggregation` to `kube-controller-manager`. ([#117977](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117977), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud...

- Fixes creationTimestamp: null causing unnecessary writes to etcd ([#116865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116865), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]