- kubeadm: consider --bind-address or --advertise-address and --secure-port for control plane components when the feature gate WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents is enabled. Use /livez for kube-apiserver and kube-scheduler, but continue using /healthz for kube-controller-manager until it supports /livez. ([#128474](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128474), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Changelog since v1.18.18

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 
  restarting of "healthy" kube-apiserver instance(s) by kubelet. ([#101114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101114), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Bug or Regression

* Resolves issue with /readyz and /livez not including etcd and kms health checks ([#82713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82713), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 
  restarting of "healthy" kube-apiserver instance(s) by kubelet. ([#101111](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101111), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Feature

- Resolves regression generating informers for packages whose names contain `.` characters ([#82410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82410), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))
- Resolves issue with `/readyz` and `/livez` not including etcd and kms health checks ([#82713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82713), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- Kubeadm: Switched to using the new etcd endpoints introduced in 3.5.11 - /livez (for liveness probe) and /readyz (for readyness and startup probe). With this change it is no longer possible to deploy a custom etcd version older than 3.5.11 with kubeadm 1.31. If so, please upgrade etcd to a supported version. ([#124465](https:...

- Extended the schema of the kube-proxy `healthz` and `livez` HTTP endpoints to incorporate information about the corresponding IP family. ([#129271](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129271), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman)) [SIG Network and Windows]

## Changelog since v1.20.6

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 
  restarting of "healthy" kube-apiserver instance(s) by kubelet. ([#101112](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101112), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Feature

- Promoted plugin subcommand resolution feature to `beta`. ([#120663](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120663), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Add a new Priority and Fairness rule that exempts all probes (`/readyz`, `/healthz`, `/livez`) to prevent restarting of healthy `kube-apiserver` instance by kubelet. ([#100678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100678), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))