* kubeadm: stop setting UID in the kubelet ConfigMap ([#66341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66341), [@runiq](https://github.com/runiq))
* fixes a panic when using a mutating webhook admission plugin with a DELETE operation ([#66425](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66425), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- kube-apiserver: Authentication configuration for mutating and validating admission webhooks referenced from an `--admission-control-config-file` can now be specified with `apiVersion: apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1, kind: WebhookAdmissionConfiguration`. ([#85138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85138),...

* Fix kubelet PVC stale metrics ([#59170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59170), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))
* Fix panic create/update CRD when mutating/validating webhook configured. ([#61404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61404), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

- Add a configuration field to shorten the timeout of validating/mutating admission webhook call. The timeout value must be between 1 and 30 seconds. Default to 30 seconds when unspecified.  ([#74562](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74562), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

- kube-apiserver: setting a `dryRun` query parameter on a CONNECT request will now cause the request to be rejected, consistent with behavior of other mutating API requests. Examples of CONNECT APIs are the `nodes/proxy`, `services/proxy`, `pods/proxy`, `pods/exec`, and `pods/attach` subresources. Note that this prevents sending a `dryRun` parameter to backends via `{nodes,services,pods}/proxy` subresources....

* API server now has two separate limits for read-only and mutating inflight requests. ([#36064](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36064), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

- The kube-apiserver now resets `managedFields` that got corrupted by a mutating admission controller. ([#98074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98074), [@kwiesmueller](https://github.com/kwiesmueller))

* kubeadm - Increase the manifest upgrade timeout to make upgrades more reliable. ([#65029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65029), [@detiber](https://github.com/detiber))
* Webhooks for the mutating admission controller now support "remove" operation. ([#64971](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64971), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

  - **apiserver_flowcontrol_watch_count_samples**: histograms of number of watches relevant to a given mutating request, broken down by that request's priority_level and flow_schema. ([#105873](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105873), [@MikeSpreitzer](https://github.com/MikeSpreitzer)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Testing]

  will now get dual-stack PodIPs. ([#95239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95239), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network and Node]
- Introduce api-extensions category which will return: mutating admission configs, validating admission configs, CRDs and APIServices when used in kubectl get, for example. ([#95603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95603), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG API Machinery]