### Other notable changes

* hyperkube: add cloud-controller-manager ([#54197](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54197), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

- Pod template `schedulingGates` are now mutable for Jobs that are suspended and have never been started ([#115940](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115940), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Apps]

- The commands `kubeadm alpha phases renew <cert-name>` have been added. ([#67910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67910), [@liztio](https://github.com/liztio)) Courtesy of SIG API Machinery, and SIG Cluster Lifecycle

- The helping message of commands which have sub-commands is now clearer and more instructive. It will show the full command instead of `kubectl <command>...

- Kubelet metrics have been changed to buckets. 
  For example the exec/{podNamespace}/{podID}/{containerName} is now just exec. ([#87913](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87913), [@cheftako](https://github.com/cheftako)) [SIG Node]

methods in generated clientsets, dynamic, metadata, and scale clients have been modified to accept `context.Context` as a first argument. Signatures of Create, Update, and Patch methods have been updated to accept CreateOptions, UpdateOptions and PatchOptions respectively. Signatures of Delete and DeleteCollection methods now accept DeleteOptions by value instead of by reference. Generated clientsets with the previous interface have been added in new "deprecated" packages to allow incremental migration...

- kubeadm has graduated `kubeadm alpha phase` commands to `kubeadm init phase`. This means that the phases of creating a control-plane node are now tightly integrated as part of the `init` command. Alpha features, not yet ready for GA are still kept under `kubeadm alpha` and we appreciate feedback on them.

* The shortcuts that were moved server-side in at least 1.9 have been removed from being hardcoded in kubectl. This means that the client-based restmappers have been moved to client-go, where everyone who needs them can have access. ([#63507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63507), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- Newly provisioned PVs by vSphere in-tree plugin will no longer have the beta FailureDomain label. vSphere volume plugin will start to have GA topology label instead. ([#102414](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102414), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Storage and Testing]

- Kubeadm: external etcd endpoints passed in the `ClusterConfiguration` that have Unicode characters are no longer IDNA encoded (converted to Punycode). They are now just URL encoded as per Go's implementation of RFC-3986, have duplicate "/" removed from the URL paths, and passed like that directly to the `kube-apiserver` `--etcd-servers` flag. If you have etcd endpoints that have Unicode characters, it is advisable to encode them in advance with tooling that is fully IDNA compliant....