- Updated the control plane's trust anchor publisher to create and manage a new ClusterTrustBundle object, associated with the `kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-serving` X.509 certificate signer. This ClusterTrustBundle contains a PEM bundle in its payload that you can use to verify kube-apiserver serving...

    * Paginate reflector init and resync List calls that are not served by watch cache.

- Switched kubectl explain to use OpenAPIV3 information published by the server. OpenAPIV2 backend can  still be used with the `--output plaintext-openapiv2` argument ([#116390](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116390), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI and...

- Filter published OpenAPI schema by making nullable, required fields non-required in order to avoid kubectl to wrongly reject null values. ([#85722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85722), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

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- Filter published OpenAPI schema by making nullable, required fields non-required in order to avoid kubectl to wrongly reject null values. ([#85722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85722), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts)) [SIG API Machinery]

- NONE ([#124327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124327), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh)) [SIG Auth]
- OpenAPI V2 will no longer publish aggregated apiserver OpenAPI for group-versions not matching the APIService specified group version ([#123624](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123624), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

  - Published OpenAPI for the StatefulSet schema is corrected to indicate the `.spec.serviceName` is optional. ([#130233](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130233), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Testing]

* Removed deprecated and unmaintained salt support. kubernetes-salt.tar.gz will no longer be published in the release tarball. ([#58248](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58248), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

* **[alpha]** The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler now supports drawing metrics through the API server aggregator.
* **[alpha]** The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler now supports scaling on multiple, custom metrics.
* Cluster Autoscaler publishes its status to kube-system/cluster-autoscaler-status ConfigMap.
* Cluster Autoscaler can continue operations while some nodes are broken or unready.
* Cluster Autoscaler respects Pod Disruption Budgets when removing a node.