- A server-side apply request that changes an object which has duplicate items in a keyed list, and modifies the duplicated item removes the duplicates and replaces them with the single item contained in the server-side apply request. ([#121575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121575), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

*   RBAC ClusterRoles can now select other roles to aggregate. ([#54005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54005),[ @deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
*   Fixed an issue with RBAC reconciliation that caused duplicated subjects in some bootstrapped RoleBinding objects on each restart of the API server. ([#53239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53239),[ @enj](https://github.com/enj))

#### **Other**

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Update Stackdriver plugin to version 0.6.7 ([#52565](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52565), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Fixes an issue with RBAC reconciliation that could cause duplicated subjects in some bootstrapped rolebindings on each restart of the API server. ([#53239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53239), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

* kubectl and client-go now detect duplicated names for user, cluster and context when loading kubeconfig and report this condition as an error.  ([#60464](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60464), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

- Kubeadm: fixed the bug that `kubeadm certs generate-csr` command does not remove duplicated SANs ([#107982](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107982), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

* Fixes an issue with RBAC reconciliation that could cause duplicated subjects in some bootstrapped rolebindings on each restart of the API server. ([#53239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53239), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 
  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121380), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling and Testing]

* Made multi-scheduler graduated to Beta and then v1. ([#38871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38871), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))
* Fixed forming resolver search line for pods: exclude duplicates, obey libc limitations, logging and eventing appropriately. ([#29666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29666), [@vefimova](https://github.com/vefimova))

- Fixed a regression in default 1.26 configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 
  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121381](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121381), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling and Testing]

- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 
  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121379](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121379), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Node, Scheduling and Testing]