#### kubectl:
- the boolean and unset values for the --dry-run flag are deprecated and a value --dry-run=server|client|none will be required in a future version. ([#87580](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87580), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG CLI]

- To address the possibility of dry-run requests overwhelming admission webhooks that rely on side effects and a reconciliation mechanism, a new field is being added to `admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.ValidatingWebhookConfiguration` and `admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.MutatingWebhookConfiguration` so that webhooks can explicitly register as having dry-run support. If a dry-run request is made on a resource that triggers a non dry-run supporting...

- Kubectl: restores `--dry-run`, `--dry-run=true`, and `--dry-run=false` for compatibility with pre-1.23 invocations. ([#107021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107021), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

## Major Themes

### SIG API Machinery

For the 1.13 release, SIG API Machinery is happy to announce that the [dry-run functionality](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#dry-run) is now beta.

### SIG Auth

### Bug or Regression

- Added (dry run) and (server dry run) suffixes to `kubectl scale` command when `dry-run` is passed ([#114252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114252), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Kubectl stack traces now only print at verbose `-v=99` and not `-v=6` ([#108053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108053), [@eddiezane](https://github.com/eddiezane))
- Kubectl: restored `--dry-run`, `--dry-run=true`, and `--dry-run=false` for compatibility with pre-1.23 invocations. ([#107003](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107003), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto))

- Kubeadm: now supports image repository format validation. ([#112732](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112732), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))
- Kubeadm: sub-phases are now able to support the dry-run mode, e.g. kubeadm reset phase cleanup-node --dry-run ([#112945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112945), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* `kubectl patch` now supports `--dry-run`. ([#60675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60675), [@timoreimann](https://github.com/timoreimann))

* - kubeadm now supports "ci/latest-1.8" or "ci-cross/latest-1.8" and similar labels. ([#49119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49119), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
* kubeadm: Adds dry-run support for kubeadm using the `--dry-run` option ([#50631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50631), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

- Kubeadm: add the `--dry-run` flag to the `control-plane` phase of "kubeadm init". ([#102722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102722), [@vinayakankugoyal](https://github.com/vinayakankugoyal))