- Kubeadm: retry `kubeadm-config` ConfigMap creation or mutation if the apiserver is not responding. This will improve resiliency when joining new control plane nodes. ([#85763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85763), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Added ListMeta.RemainingItemCount. When responding to a LIST request, if the server has more data available, and if the request does not contain label selectors or field selectors, the server sets the ListOptions.RemainingItemCount to the number of remaining objects. ([#75993](https://github.co...

`ConversionReview` API sent to and received from custom resource CustomResourceDefinition conversion webhooks has been promoted to `apiextensions.k8s.io/v1`. CustomResourceDefinition conversion webhooks can now indicate they support receiving and responding with `ConversionReview` API objects in the `apiextensions.k8s.io/v1` version by including `v1` in the `conversionReviewVersions` list in their CustomResourceDefinition. Conversion webhooks must respond with a ConversionReview object in the same...

continue the previous list call repeatedly until all results are retrieved.  The resulting list is identical to a list call that does not perform chunking thanks to capabilities provided by etcd3.  This allows the server to use less memory and CPU responding with very large lists.  This feature is gated as APIListChunking and is not enabled by default.  The 1.9 release will begin using this by default from all informers. ([#48921](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48921), [@smarterclayt...