- 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))

* [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))

*   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**

- 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]

- 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]

- 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]

- kube-apiserver `--admission-control-config-file` files are now validated strictly (EnableStrict). Duplicate and unknown fields in the configuration will now cause an error. ([#128013](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128013), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3))