* Kubeadm now includes CoreDNS version 1.6.5 ([#85108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85108), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))
    *  - `kubernetes` plugin adds metrics to measure kubernetes control plane latency.
    *  -  the `health` plugin now includes the `lameduck` option by default, which waits for a duration before shutting down.

ts feature gate. It can be used to tell kubeadm to wait for all control plane components to be ready when running "kubeadm init" or "kubeadm join --control-plane". Currently kubeadm only waits for the kube-apiserver. The "kubeadm join" workflow now includes a new experimental phase called "wait-control-plane". This phase will be marked as non-experimental when WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents becomes GA. Accordingly a "kubeadm init" phase "wait-control-plane" will also be available once WaitForA...

* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))

- kubeadm: added back `--cert-dir` option for `kubeadm init phase certs sa` ([#73239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73239), [@mattkelly](https://github.com/mattkelly))
- kubeadm: now explicitly waits for `etcd` to have grown when joining a new control plane ([#72984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72984), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))

- Node shutdown controller made a best effort to wait for CSI Drivers to complete the volume teardown process according to the pod priority groups. ([#125070](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125070), [@torredil](https://github.com/torredil)) [SIG Node, Storage and Testing]

* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))
* Corrected a mistake in the documentation for wait.PollImmediate(...) ([#65026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65026), [@spew](https://github.com/spew))

- The EndpointSlice controller now waits for EndpointSlice and Node caches to be synced before starting. ([#94086](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94086), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

#### **Audit**

- Add kubectl wait  --ignore-not-found flag ([#90969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90969), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0)) [SIG CLI]

- Schedular now waits for handlers to finish syncing before the scheduling cycles start. ([#116729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116729), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan)) [SIG Apps, Scheduling and Testing]