- cert-dir: use certificatesDir from ClusterConfiguration ([#94879](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94879), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- kubeadm: avoid double deletion of the upgrade prepull DaemonSet ([#80798](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80798), [@xlgao-zju](https://github.com/xlgao-zju))
- kubeadm: introduce deterministic ordering for the certificates generation in the phase command `kubeadm init phase certs`. ([#78556](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78556), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- `kubectl scale` now uses the Scale subresource for kinds in the apps/v1beta2 group.

- `kubectl create configmap` and `kubectl create secret` subcommands now support
  the `--append-hash` flag, which enables unique but deterministic naming for
  objects generated from files, for example with `--from-file`.

- `kubectl run` can set a service account name in the generated pod
  spec with the `--serviceaccount` flag.