- Kubeadm: tolerate whitespace when validating certificate authority PEM data in kubeconfig files ([#86705](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86705), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kube-apiserver: Previously persisted `CustomResourceDefinition` objects with an invalid whitespace-only `caBundle` could serve requests that did not require conversion. ([#132514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132514), [@tiffanny29631](https://github.com/tiffanny29631))

* Support whitespace in command path for gcp auth plugin ([#41653](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41653), [@jlowdermilk](https://github.com/jlowdermilk))

- YAML documents separators ("---") can now be followed by whitespace and comments ("# ....") on the same line. This fixes a bug where documents starting with a comment after the separator were ignored. Other types of content on the same line will result in an error. ([#103457](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103457),...

- Kubeadm: fix a whitespace issue in the output of the "kubeadm join" command shown as the output of "kubeadm init" and "kubeadm token create --print-join-command" ([#97413](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97413), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG...