- Promoted `ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange` to stable and lock to default. ([#120233](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120233), [@xuzhenglun](https://github.com/xuzhenglun))
- Promoted plugin subcommand resolution feature to `beta`. ([#120663](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120663), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

  that provide new subcommands. Refer to the documentation for more information.

- `kubectl rollout` and `rollback` now support StatefulSet.

- `kubectl scale` now uses the Scale subresource for kinds in the apps/v1beta2 group.

- `kubectl create configmap` and `kubectl create secret` subcommands now support

- `kubectl auth reconcile` now outputs details about what changes are being made ([#71564](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71564), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
- Added Kustomize as a subcommand in kubectl ([#73033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73033), [@Liujingfang1](https://github.com/Liujingfang1))

- Enabled kubectl to find `kubectl-create-subcommand` plugins when positional
  arguments exists, e.g. `kubectl create subcommand arg`. ([#124123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124123), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Enable external plugins can be used as subcommands for kubectl create command if subcommand does not exist as builtin only when KUBECTL_ENABLE_CMD_SHADOW environment variable is exported. ([#116293](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116293), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Correct a reference to a not/no longer used kustomize subcommand in the documentation ([#82535](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82535), [@demobox](https://github.com/demobox))

    - [Garbage Collector](#garbage-collector)
    - [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)

  * New commands

    * Add `kubectl config rename-context` ([#46114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46114), [@arthur0](https://github.com/arthur0))

    * Add `kubectl apply edit-last-applied` subcommand ([#42256](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42256), [@shiywang](https://github.com/shiywang))

  * Strategic Merge Patch

*   Added --raw to kubectl create to POST using the normal transport. ([#54245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54245),[ @deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
*   Added kubectl `create priorityclass` subcommand ([#54858](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54858),[ @wackxu](https://github.com/wackxu))

- The  command line option  --cri-socket-path of the kubeadm subcommand "kubeadm config images pull" has been renamed to --cri-socket to be consistent with the rest of kubeadm subcommands.