- The  command line option  --cri-socket-path of the kubeadm subcommand "kubeadm config images pull" has been renamed to --cri-socket to be consistent with the rest of kubeadm subcommands.

resource version option, when passed to a list call, is now consistently interpreted as the minimum allowed resource version.  Previously when listing resources that had the watch cache disabled clients could retrieve a snapshot at that exact resource version.  If the client requests a resource version newer than the current state, a TimeoutError is returned suggesting the client retry in a few seconds.  This behavior is now consistent for both single item retrieval and list calls, and for when the...

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- Fixed #118052: nodeAffinity on pods can change prior to scheduling gates being removed even when podSpec.affinity is nil in the initial spec, this matches the 1.28 behavior to allow consistent integrators to be written. ([#118199](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118199), [@aleskandro](https://github.com/aleskandro)) [SIG Apps, Scheduling and Testing]

release, SIG Apps moved the Kubernetes workloads API to the new apps/v1beta2 group and version. The DaemonSet, Deployment, ReplicaSet, and StatefulSet objects are affected by this change. The new apps/v1beta2 group and version provide a stable and consistent API surface for building applications in Kubernetes. For details about deprecations and behavioral changes, see [Notable Features](#notable-features). SIG Apps intends to promote this version to GA in a future release.

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- Component-base: make the validation logic about LeaderElectionConfiguration consistent between component-base and client-go ([#111758](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111758), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG API Machinery and Scheduling]

*   DaemonSet status includes a new field named `conditions`, making it consistent with other workloads controllers. ([#55272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55272),[ @janetkuo](https://github.com/janetkuo))
*   StatefulSet status now supports conditions, making it consistent with other core controllers in v1 ([#55268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55268),[ @foxish](https://github.com/foxish))

* etcd client add dial timeout. ([#61459](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61459), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))
* nil admission options are now consistent with other nil options. ([#63993](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63993), [@tamalsaha](https://github.com/tamalsaha))

The cri-tools project, which aims to provide consistent tooling for operators to debug and introspect their nodes in production independent of their chosen container runtime, graduated to GA.

- Default TTL for DNS records in kubernetes zone has been changed from 5s to 30s to keep consistent with old dnsmasq based kube-dns. The TTL can be customized with command `kubectl edit -n kube-system configmap/coredns`. ([#76238](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76238), [@Dieken](https://github.com/Dieken))