- Changed core_pattern on COS nodes to be an absolute path. ([#86329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86329), [@mml](https://github.com/mml)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Node]
- Client-go certificate manager rotation gained the ability to preserve optional intermediate chains accompanying issued certificates ([#88744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88744), [@jackkleeman](https://github.com/jackkleeman)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

### Juju
* The kubernetes-master, kubernetes-worker and kubeapi-load-balancer charms have gained an nrpe-external-master relation, allowing the integration of their monitoring in an external Nagios server. ([#41923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41923), [@Cynerva](https://github.com/Cynerva))

* Start synchronizing pods after network is ready.  ([#68752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68752), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))
* kubectl has gained new --profile and --profile-output options to output go profiles ([#68681](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68681), [@dlespiau](https://github.com/dlespiau))

* PodSecurityPolicy admission sets `podsecuritypolicy.admission.k8s.io/admit-policy` and `podsecuritypolicy.admission.k8s.io/validate-policy` annotations containing the name of the policy that allowed a pod to be admitted. (PodSecurityPolicy also gained the ability to [limit hostPath volume mounts to be read-only](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/pod-security-policy/#volumes-and-file-systems).)

In addition, the NodeRestriction admission plugin now prevents kubelets from modifying...

- The errors in k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta gained support for the stdlibs errors.Is matching, including when wrapped ([#111808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111808), [@alvaroaleman](https://github.com/alvaroaleman)) [SIG API Machinery]