([#122292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122292), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- JWTs used in service account and OIDC authentication are now strictly parsed to confirm that they use compact serialization. Other encodings were not previously accepted, but would result in different unspecific errors. ([#123540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123540), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

- Added a new command line argument `--interactive` to kubectl. The new command line argument lets a user confirm deletion requests per resource interactively. ([#114530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114530), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

- Endpoint controller requeues service after an endpoint deletion event occurs to confirm that deleted endpoints are undesired to mitigate the effects of an out of sync endpoint cache. ([#93030](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93030), [@swetharepakula](https://github.com/swetharepakula)) [SIG Apps and Network]

* kubeadm no longer allows using v1alpha3 configs for anything else than converting them to v1beta1. ([#74025](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74025), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))
* Change kubelet metrics to conform metrics guidelines. ([#72470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72470), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
    * The following metrics are deprecated, and will be removed in a future release:

    an in-place upgrade, the Kubelet will automatically restart all
    Kubernetes-managed containers on the node.
  * It is not compatible with CNI plugins that do not conform to the
    [error handling behavior in the spec](https://github.com/containernetworking/cni/blob/master/SPEC.md#network-configuration-list-error-handling).