#### kubectl:

* The kubelet API is now secured, only cluster admins are allowed to access it.
* Insecure access to the API Server over `localhost:8080` is now disabled.
* The control plane components now talk securely to each other. The API Server talks securely to the kubelets in the cluster.

- API servers using the default Google Compute Engine bootstrapping scripts will have their insecure port (`:8080`) disabled by default. To enable the insecure port, set `ENABLE_APISERVER_INSECURE_PORT=true` in kube-env or as an environment variable. ([#77447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77447), [@dekkagaijin](https://github.com/dekkagaijin))...

* Update version of Istio addon from 0.5.1 to 0.8.0. See [full Istio release notes](https://istio.io/news/releases/0.x/announcing-0.6/).([#64537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64537))

- Volume dynamic provisioning scheduling has been moved to beta, which means that the DynamicProvisioningScheduling alpha feature gate has been removed but the...

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- Fix the bash completion error with override flags. ([#80802](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80802), [@dtaniwaki](https://github.com/dtaniwaki))

gs` and `--scheduler-extra-args`, making it possible to override / specify additional flags for control plane components. One good example is to deploy Kubernetes with a different admission-control flag on API server. ([#58080](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58080), [@simonferquel](https://github.com/simonferquel))

* Alpha Initializers have been removed from kubeadm admission control.  Kubeadm users who still want to use Initializers can use apiServerExtraArgs through...

* Fix validation message to mention bytes, not characters. ([#80880](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80880), [@DirectXMan12](https://github.com/DirectXMan12))