- kubeadm: now explicitly waits for `etcd` to have grown when joining a new control plane ([#72984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72984), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))
- kubeadm: now pulls images when joining a new control plane instance ([#72870](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72870), [@MalloZup](https://github.com/MalloZup))

* Include the list of security groups when failing with the errors that more then one is tagged ([#58874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58874), [@sorenmat](https://github.com/sorenmat))
* Allow "required" to be used at the CRD OpenAPI validation schema when the /status subresource is enabled. ([#63533](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63533), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Updated kubernetes-worker to request new security tokens when the aws cloud provider changes the registered node name. ([#59730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59730), [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346))

  To request this behavior, your client software must enable the `WatchListClient` client-go feature gate. Additionally, streaming is only available if supported by the cluster; the API server that you connect to must also support streaming.

- Fixed panic when accessing CustomResources of a CRD with `x-kubernetes-int-or-string`. ([#83787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83787), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Fix: statle smb mount issue when smb file share is deleted and then unmount ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]
- Fixed a regression since 1.24 in the scheduling framework when overriding MultiPoint plugins (e.g. default plugins).

  cause DNS problems when DNS pods were restarted. ([#127808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127808), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]
- Kubeadm: fix wrong member list reported when removing an etcd member ([#127962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127962), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Fix panic in ControllerManager on GCE when it has a problem with creating external loadbalancer healthcheck ([#52646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52646), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

- When client certificate files are provided, reload files for new connections, and close connections when a certificate changes. ([#79083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79083), [@jackkleeman](https://github.com/jackkleeman)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Node and Testing]

be used to tell kubeadm to use the local kube-apiserver endpoint for the kubelet when creating a cluster with "kubeadm init" or when joining control plane nodes with "kubeadm join".  The "kubeadm join" workflow now includes two new experimental phases called "control-plane-join-etcd" and "kubelet-wait-bootstrap" which will be used when the feature gate is enabled. This phases will be marked as non-experimental when ControlPlaneKubeletLocalMode becomes GA. During "kubeadm upgrade" commands, if the...