## Urgent Upgrade Notes
### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)
#### Cluster Lifecycle
- Kubeadm: add a new `kubelet-finalize` phase as part of the `init` workflow and an experimental sub-phase to enable automatic kubelet client certificate rotation on primary control-plane nodes.

* fix incorrect prometheus azure metrics ([#77722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77722), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixes a bug where dry-run is not honored for pod/eviction sub-resource. ([#76969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76969), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

- : `kubeadm upgrade apply` now supports phase sub-command, users can use `kubeadm upgrade apply phase <phase-name>` to execute the specified phase, or use `kubeadm upgrade apply --skip-phases <phase-names>` to skip some phases during cluster upgrade. ([#126032](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126032),...

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- Fixed a bug where dry-run is not honored for pod/eviction sub-resource. ([#76969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76969), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

- Expanded the on-disk kubelet credential...

 
## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

- 'kubeadm: marked the sub-phase of ''init kubelet-finilize'' called ''experimental-cert-rotation''
  as deprecated and print a warning if it is used directly; it will be removed in

- `kubeadm`: fixed the bug where `--image-repository` flag is missing for some init
  phase sub-commands. ([#120072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120072), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

* Fixes a bug where dry-run is not honored for pod/eviction sub-resource. ([#76969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76969), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

- Kubeadm: fixed a bug during kubeadm upgrade, where it is not possible to mount a new device and create a symbolic link for /etc/kubernetes (or a sub-directory) so that kubeadm stores its information on the mounted device. ([#123406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123406), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))