- kubeadm: JoinConfiguration now houses the discovery options in a nested Discovery structure, which in turn has a couple of other nested structures to house more specific options (BootstrapTokenDiscovery and FileDiscovery) ([#67763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67763), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

*   You can now add "options" to the host's /etc/resolv.conf (or --resolv-conf), and they will be copied into pod's resolv.conf when dnsPolicy is Default. Being able to customize options is important because it is common to leverage options to fine-tune the behavior of DNS client. ([#54773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54773),[ @phsiao](https://github.com/phsiao))...

* Add override flags options to kubefed init ([#40917](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40917), [@irfanurrehman](https://github.com/irfanurrehman))
* Add option to expose federation apiserver on nodeport service ([#40516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40516), [@shashidharatd](https://github.com/shashidharatd))

#### Storage

* [stable] Mount options

  * The ability to specify mount options for volumes is moved from beta to stable.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `PersistentVolume` spec is available to specify mount options. This field replaces an annotation.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `StorageClass` spec allows configuration of mount options for dynamically provisioned volumes.

rate limit is switched to per-client. A set of new rate limit configure options are introduced, including routeRateLimit, SubnetsRateLimit, InterfaceRateLimit, RouteTableRateLimit, LoadBalancerRateLimit, PublicIPAddressRateLimit, SecurityGroupRateLimit, VirtualMachineRateLimit, StorageAccountRateLimit, DiskRateLimit, SnapshotRateLimit, VirtualMachineScaleSetRateLimit and VirtualMachineSizeRateLimit. The original rate limit options would be default values for those new client's rate limiter. ([#8651...

- Added options for configuring `nf_conntrack_udp_timeout`, and `nf_conntrack_udp_timeout_stream` variables of netfilter conntrack subsystem. ([#120808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120808), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

- Cluster admins can now turn off `/debug/pprof` and `/debug/flags/v` endpoint in kubelet by setting `enableProfilingHandler` and `enableDebugFlagsHandler` to `false` in the Kubelet configuration file. Options `enableProfilingHandler` and `enableDebugFlagsHandler` can be set to `true` only when `enableDebuggingHandlers` is also set to `true`. ([#98458](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98458), [@SaranBalaji90](https://github.com/SaranBalaji90))...

* Add `Option` field to the admission webhook `AdmissionReview` API that provides the operation options (e.g. `DeleteOption` or `CreateOption`) for the operation being performed. ([#77563](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77563), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- The `--cidr-allocator-type` option set to `CloudAllocator` for `kube-controller-manager` will be deprecated and removed in a future release. Users are advised to transition to and explore the available options provided by their external cloud provider. ([#123011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123011), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- The CPUManager policy options are now enabled, and we introduce a graduation path for the new CPU Manager policy options. ([#105012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105012), [@fromanirh](https://github.com/fromanirh))