- Promoted `whoami` kubectl command. ([#116510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116510), [@nabokihms](https://github.com/nabokihms))
- Scheduler no longer runs the plugin's `Filter` method when its `PreFilter` method returned a Skip status.
  In other words, your `PreFilter`/`Filter` plugin can return a Skip status in `PreFilter` if the plugin does nothing in Filter for that Pod.

- Added the `WatchList` method to the `rest client` in `client-go`. When used,
  it establishes a stream to obtain a consistent snapshot of data from the server.

- Removed support for API streaming from the `List()` method of the typed client. ([#132257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132257), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Kubeadm: added a new preflight check `ContainerRuntimeVersion ` to validate if the installed container runtime supports the RuntimeConfig gRPC method. If the container runtime does not support the RuntimeConfig gRPC method, kubeadm will print a warning message. 
  

### Feature

- Extend AWS azToRegion method to support Local Zones ([#90874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90874), [@Jeffwan](https://github.com/Jeffwan)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Bug or Regression

- For `kubeadm`: remove the ClusterStatus API from v1beta3 and its management in the kube-system/kubeadm-config ConfigMap. This method of keeping track of what API endpoints exists in the cluster was replaced (in a prior release) by a method to annotate the etcd Pods that `kubeadm` creates in "stacked etcd" clusters. The following CLI sub-phases are deprecated and are now a NO-OP: for `kubeadm join`: "control-plane-join/update-status",...

### Feature

- Extend AWS azToRegion method to support Local Zones ([#90874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90874), [@Jeffwan](https://github.com/Jeffwan)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Bug or Regression

### Other notable changes

* fixed foreground deletion of podtemplates ([#60683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60683), [@nilebox](https://github.com/nilebox))
* fix the error prone account creation method of blob disk ([#59739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59739), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- RateLimiter add a context-aware method, fix client-go request goruntine backlog in async timeout scene. ([#79375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79375), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))
- Add a `Patch` method to `ScaleInterface` ([#80699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80699), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42))

- kubelet now allows the use of XFS quotas (on XFS and suitably configured ext4fs filesystems) to monitor storage consumption for ephemeral storage.  This method of monitoring consumption, which is currently available only for `emptyDir` volumes, is faster and more accurate than the old method of walking the filesystem tree. Note that it does not enforce limits, it only monitors consumption. To utilize this functionality, set the feature gate `LocalStorageCapacityIsolati...