- Improved the scalability of the PVC Protection Controller by batch-processing PVCs by namespace and implementing lazy live pod listing. ([#126745](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126745), [@hungnguyen243](https://gith...

- Kubernetes is now built with Go 1.21.6 ([#122705](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122705), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Architecture, Release and Testing]
- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.22rc2 ([#122889](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122889), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

    - [kubeadm](#kubeadm-2)
    - [kubectl](#kubectl-1)
      - [New Commands](#new-commands)
      - [Create subcommands](#create-subcommands)
      - [Updates to existing commands](#updates-to-existing-commands)
      - [Updates to apply](#updates-to-apply)
      - [Updates to edit](#updates-to-edit)
      - [Bug fixes](#bug-fixes)
      - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-14)

  - NetworkPolicy resources will no longer be served from `extensions/v1beta1` in v1.16. Migrate use to the `networking.k8s.io/v1` API, available since v1.8. Existing persisted data can be retrieved via the `networking.k8s.io/v1` API.

- Reporting E2E conformance test results to TestGrid from every cloud provider (in collaboration with SIG Testing & SIG Release)
- Defining minimum required documentation from each cloud provider which includes (in collaboration with SIG Docs):

- Missing directories listed in a user's PATH are no longer considered errors and are instead logged by the `kubectl plugin list` command when listing available plugins. ([#73542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73542), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))
- Now users can get object info like:

- Kubeadm: warn but do not error out on missing "ca.key" files for root CA, front-proxy CA and etcd CA, during "kubeadm join --control-plane" if the user has provided all certificates, keys and kubeconfig files which require signing with the given CA keys. ([#94988](...

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      - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation)
      - [Network](#network)
      - [Node](#node)
      - [Scheduling](#scheduling)
      - [Storage](#storage-1)
    - [Testing](#testing)
      - [Windows](#windows)
    - [Dependencies](#dependencies-7)
      - [Changed](#changed-7)
      - [Unchanged](#unchanged)
      - [Removed](#removed-7)

* kubeadm now configures the etcd liveness probe correctly when etcd is listening on all interfaces ([#64670](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64670), [@stealthybox](https://github.com/stealthybox))...