- `kubectl port-forward` now exits with exit code 1 when remote connection is
  lost ([#114460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114460), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley))
- `nodeName` being set along with non-empty `schedulingGates` is now enforced. ([#115569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115569), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

### Windows

- Kubelet command line flags related to dockershim are now showing deprecation message as they will be removed along with dockershim in future release. ([#98730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98730), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- `Kubectl describe <type>` and `kubectl top pod` will return a message saying `"No resources found"` or `"No resources found in <namespace> namespace"` if there are no results to display. ([#87527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87527), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG CLI]

### Network
- The official kube-proxy image (used by kubeadm, among other things) is now compatible with systems running iptables 1.8 in "nft" mode, and will autodetect which mode it should use. ([#82966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82966), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

* federation: Support for leader-election among federation controller-manager instances introduced. ([#46090](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46090), [@shashidharatd](https://github.com/shashidharatd))

We are also continuing our long running effort to extract all the existing cloud providers that live in k8s.io/kubernetes into their own respective repos. Along with this migration, we are slowly transitioning users to use the cloud-controller-manager for any cloud provider features instead of the kube-controller-manager.

### SIG Cluster Lifecycle

  - apiserver_flowcontrol_next_s_bounds: min and max next S among non-empty queues

- Pod spread constraints have been added in alpha. You can use these constraints to control how Pods are spread across the cluster among failure-domains. ([#77327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77327), [#77760](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77760), [#77828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77828), [#79062](https://github.com/kubernetes/k...

- Kubelet: the following dockershim related flags are also removed along with dockershim `--experimental-dockershim-root-directory`, `--docker-endpoint`, `--image-pull-progress-deadline`, `--network-plugin`, `--cni-conf-dir`, `--cni-bin-dir`, `--cni-cache-dir`, `--network-plugin-mtu`. ([#106907](https://github.com/kube...