configuring kubeadm. Before it only existed as a command line flag and was not able to be configured when using the `--config` flag and the manifest files. ([#59057](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59057))([#59292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59292), [@JordanFaust](https://github.com/JordanFaust))

* `kubeadm init` can now omit the tainting of the master node if configured to do so in `kubeadm.yaml` using `noTaintMaster: true`. For example, uses can create a...

since the default timeout (if not specified) is `1s` which may be too small for some exec probes. Ensure that pods relying on this behavior are updated to correctly handle probe timeouts. See [configure probe](https://docs.k8s.io/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#configure-probes) section of the documentation for more details.

  - This change in behavior may be unexpected for some clusters and can be disabled by turning off the `ExecProbeTimeout`...

    Normal  Scheduled  <unknown>  default-scheduler  Successfully assigned default/nginx-6c975b59f8-gvmjr to minikube
  ......
- Azure: fix a bug that kube-controller-manager would panic if wrong Azure VMSS name is configured ([#94306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94306), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

 - Kubeadm: the flag `--cri-socket` is no longer allowed in a mixture with the...

- Kubernetes now supports configure accessLogs for AWS NLB. ([#78497](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78497), [@M00nF1sh](https://github.com/M00nF1sh))
- Kubernetes now supports update LoadBalancerSourceRanges for AWS NLB([#74692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74692), [@M00nF1sh](https://github.com/M00nF1sh))

- Removed deprecated command `kubectl stop`.

- Kubectl can now use http caching for the OpenAPI schema. The cache
  directory can be configured by passing the `--cache-dir` command line flag to kubectl.
  If set to an empty string, caching is disabled.

- Kubectl now performs validation against OpenAPI schema instead of Swagger 1.2. If

aggregated (served along with) the rest of the Kubernetes API. See [Extending the Kubernetes API with the aggregation layer](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/api-extension/apiserver-aggregation/), [Configure the aggregation layer](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/configure-aggregation-layer/), and [Setup an extension API server](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/setup-extension-api-server/).

* [alpha] Adding admissionregistration API group...

- Add --for=create option to kubectl wait ([#125868](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125868), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI and Testing]
- Add a TopologyManager policy option: max-allowable-numa-nodes to configures maxAllowableNUMANodes for kubelet. ([#124148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124148), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Component owner can configure the allowlist of metric label with flag '--allow-metric-labels'. ([#99385](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99385), [@YoyinZyc](https://github.com/YoyinZyc)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Release]

- Secure serving on port 10258 to cloud-controller-manager (configurable via `--secure-port`) is now enabled. Delegated authentication and authorization are to be configured using the same flags as for aggregated API servers. Without configuration, the secure port will only allow access to `/healthz`. ([#67069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67069), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts)) Courtesy of SIG...