- Introduced the alpha `MutableSchedulingDirectivesForSuspendedJobs` feature gate (disabled by default), which allows mutating a Job's scheduling directives while the Job is suspended. 

- Adds the ability to pass --strict-transport-security-directives to the kube-apiserver to set the HSTS header appropriately.  Be sure you understand the consequences to browsers before setting this field. ([#96502](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96502), [@249043822](https://github.com/249043822))...

- Kube-apiserver: Previously persisted `CustomResourceDefinition` objects with an invalid whitespace-only...

  - setcap:bullseye-v1.3.0 ([#110558](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110558), [@wespanther](https://github.com/wespanther))
- When using the OpenStack legacy cloud provider, kubelet and KCM will ignore unknown configuration directives rather than failing to start. ([#109709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109709), [@mdbooth](https://github.com/mdbooth))

- Fixed bug that caused a resource to include patch directives when using strategic merge patch against a non-existent field. ([#117568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117568), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))

      * `kubectl edit` and `kubectl apply` will keep the ordering of elements in merged lists ([#45980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45980), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy))

      * New patch directive (retainKeys) to specifying clearing fields missing from the request ([#44597](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44597), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy))

  
  When we switched to go-runner for building the apiserver,
  controller-manager, and scheduler server components, we no longer
  reference the individual architectures in the image names, specifically
  in the 'FROM' directive of the server image Dockerfiles.
  
  As a result, server images for non-amd64 images copy in the go-runner
  amd64 binary instead of the go-runner that matches that architecture.
  

	<code>U</code> and <code>A</code> must unify loosely.
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	Similarly, if all types in <code>C</code>'s type set are
	channel types with the same element type and non-conflicting
	channel directions,
	and <code>P</code> has a known type argument <code>A</code>,
	the most restrictive channel type in <code>C</code>'s type
	set and <code>A</code> must unify loosely.
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* Add generic Toleration for NoExecute Taints to NodeProblemDetector ([#45883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45883), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* support replaceKeys patch strategy and directive for strategic merge patch ([#44597](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44597), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy))