- The `controller.kubernetes.io/pod-deletion-cost` annotation can be set to offer a hint on the cost of deleting a `Pod` compared to other pods belonging to the same ReplicaSet. Pods with lower deletion cost are deleted first. This is an alpha feature. ([#99163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99163), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

- Fixed the issue where pod with ordinal number lower than the rolling partitioning number was being deleted it was coming up with updated image. ([#120731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120731), [@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

    * - kubeadm upgrade apply supports all standard ways of specifying version via labels. Examples: stable-1.8, latest-1.8, ci/latest-1.9 and similar.
* - kubeadm 1.9 will detect and fail init or join pre-flight checks if kubelet is lower than 1.8.0-alpha ([#52913](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52913), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

- Revised `OpenAPI v2` fetching for CustomResourceDefinitions. CRDs are now aggregated lazily,
  which improves resource usage during installation of many CRDs. As a result, the first request
  to fetch the OpenAPI may be slower. ([#118808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118808), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))

 - Kubeadm: increase robustness for "kubeadm join" when adding etcd members on slower setups ([#90645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90645), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

For more information, see [#51899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/51899).

- Kubeadm: increase robustness for "kubeadm join" when adding etcd members on slower setups ([#90645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90645), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

  Previously, for IPv6, if the podSubnet had a mask lower than /112, kubeadm calculated a node-mask to be multiple of eight and splitting the available bits to maximise the number used for nodes. ([#95723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95723), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Cluster...

- Fixed architecture within manifest for non `amd64` etcd images. ([#105484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105484), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))
- Fixed azure disk translation issue due to lower case `managed` kind. ([#103439](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103439), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

components as non-root users. This is a long requested security measure in kubeadm. To try it you must enable the kubeadm-specific `RootlessControlPlane` feature gate. When you deploy a cluster using this alpha feature, your control plane runs with lower privileges.

A new [v1beta3 configuration API](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/1796). It [iterates over v1beta2](https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta3) by adding some long requested features...