- kubeadm: graduated the WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents feature gate to Beta. When checking the health status of a control plane...

- kubeadm: removed the deprecated flag `--experimental-output`, please use the flag `--output` instead that serves the same purpose. Affected commands are: `kubeadm config images list`, `kubeadm token list`, `kubeadm upgrade plan`, `kubeadm certs check-expiration`. ([#126914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126914), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Cluster...

 - The flag `--experimental-patches` is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. You can migrate to using the new flag `--patches`. Add a new field `{Init|Join}Configuration.patches.directory` that can be used for the same purpose. For `init` and `join` it is now recommended that you migrate to configure patches via `{Init|Join}Configuration.patches.directory`. For the time being, these flags can be mixed with `--config`, but that might change in the future. On a command line,...

- 'kubeadm: marked the flag "--experimental-output'' as deprecated (it will
  be removed in a future release) and added a new flag ''--output" that serves the
  same purpose. Affected commands are - "kubeadm config images list", "kubeadm token

- Kubeadm: removed the deprecated `output/v1alpha1` API used for machine readable output by some kubeadm commands. In 1.23 kubeadm started using the newer version `output/v1alpha2` for the same purpose. ([#107468](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107468), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

* Add a special purpose tool for editing individual fields in a ConfigMap with kubectl ([#38445](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38445), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

- `kubectl` now contains a `kubectl alpha debug` command. This command allows attaching an ephemeral container to a running pod for the purposes of debugging. ([#88004](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88004), [@verb](https://github.com/verb)) [SIG CLI]

- Profiling can now be served on a unix-domain socket by using the `--profiling-path` option (when profiling is enabled) for security purposes. ([#114191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114191), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery]

- To avoid soft-deleted pods incorrectly affecting scale up replica count calculations, the HPA controller will stop counting soft-deleted pods for scaling purposes. ([#67067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67067), [@moonek](https://github.com/moonek))

- Deprecated the `apiserver_request_slo_duration_seconds` metric for v1.27 in favor of `apiserver_request_sli_duration_seconds` for naming consistency purposes with other SLI-specific metrics and to avoid any confusion between SLOs and SLIs. ([#112679](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112679), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet))