- Kubeadm increased to 5 minutes its timeout for the TLS bootstrapping process to complete upon join ([#89735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89735), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- Kubeadm: Add retries for kubeadm join / UpdateStatus to make update status more resilient by adding a retry loop to this operation ([#91952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91952), [@xlgao-zju](https://github.com/xlgao-zju)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]