- Kubernetes components that accepted X.509 client certificate authentication now read the user UID from a certificate subject name RDN with object ID `1.3.6.1.4.1.57683.2`. An RDN with this object ID had to contain a string value and appear no more than once in the certificate subject. Reading the user UID from this RDN could be disabled by setting the beta feature gate `AllowParsingUserUIDFromCertAuth` to `false`(until the feature gate graduated to...

- `Kubectl set resources` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. `kubectl set subject` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. ([#85490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85490), [@sallyom](https://github.com/sallyom)) [SIG CLI]

and `apiserver_webhooks_x509_missing_san_total`. This metric measures a number of connections to webhooks/aggregated API servers that use certificates without Subject Alternative Names. It being non-zero is a warning sign that these connections will stop functioning in the future since Golang is going to deprecate x509 certificate subject Common Names for server hostname verification. ([#95396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95396), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG API Machinery,...

via a new mime-type application/json;as=Table;v=v1alpha1;g=meta.k8s.io. The returned object (if the server supports it) will be of type meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1 with Table, and contain column and row information related to the resource. Each row will contain information about the resource - by default it will be the object metadata, but callers can add the ?includeObject=Object query parameter and receive the full object. In the future kubectl will use this to retrieve the results of `kubectl get`. ([#...

  - A server-side apply request that makes unrelated changes to an object which has duplicate items in a keyed list no longer fails, and leaves the existing duplicate items as-is.

* RBAC `v1beta1` RoleBinding/ClusterRoleBinding subjects changed `apiVersion` to `apiGroup` to fully-qualify a subject. ServiceAccount subjects default to an apiGroup of `""`, User and Group subjects default to an apiGroup of `"rbac.authorization.k8s.io"`. ([#41184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41184), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kubectl: --resource-version now works properly in label/annotate/set selector commands when racing with other clients to update the target object ([#85285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85285), [@liggitt](https...

* kubelets are no longer allowed to delete their own Node API object. Prior to 1.11, in rare circumstances related to cloudprovider node ID changes, kubelets would attempt to delete/recreate their Node object at startup. Kubelets older than 1.11 are not supported running against a v1.13+ API server. If an unsupported legacy kubelet encounters this situation, a cluster admin can remove the Node object: ([#71021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71021), [@liggitt](htt...

For more information, see [#53040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53040).

* Object quotas are not consistently charged or updated. Specifically, the object count quota does not reliably account for uninitialized objects. Some quotas are charged only when an object is initialized. Others are charged when an object is created, whether it is initialized or not. We plan to fix this issue in a future release.

  remove unused rules immediately once they are no longer used.)

  (The threshold for "large" used here is currently "1000 endpoints" but
  this is subject to change.) ([#110334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110334), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))