- Prevent logging of docker config contents if file is malformed ([#95348](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95348), [@sfowl](https://github.com/sfowl)) [SIG Auth and Node]

### Bug or Regression

- Do not fail sorting empty elements. ([#94666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94666), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI]

* Using `kubectl describe` on CRDs that use underscores will be prettier. ([#65391](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65391), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))
* Improve scheduler's performance by eliminating sorting of nodes by their score. ([#65396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65396), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- Prevent logging of docker config contents if file is malformed ([#95347](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95347), [@sfowl](https://github.com/sfowl)) [SIG Auth and Node]

### Bug or Regression

- Do not fail sorting empty elements. ([#94666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94666), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI]

* `kubectl patch` now supports `--dry-run`. ([#60675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60675), [@timoreimann](https://github.com/timoreimann))
* fix sorting taints in case the sorting keys are equal ([#61255](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61255), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- `kubectl get` no longer exits before printing all of its results if an error is found ([#70311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70311), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))
- Fixed a runtime error occurring when sorting the output of `kubectl get` with empty results ([#70740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70740), [@mfpierre](https://github.com/mfpierre))

## Changelog since v1.3.6

### Other notable changes

* AWS: Add ap-south-1 to list of known AWS regions ([#28428](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28428), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Back porting critical vSphere bug fixes to release 1.3 ([#31993](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31993), [@dagnello](https://github.com/dagnello))

  * More expressive node affinity syntax, and support for “soft” node affinity.
Node selectors (to constrain pods to schedule on a subset of nodes) now support
the operators {<code>In, NotIn, Exists, DoesNotExist, Gt, Lt</code>}  instead of just conjunction of exact match on node label values. In
addition, we’ve introduced a new “soft” kind of node selector that is just a

- client-go: `PortForwarder.GetPorts()` now contain correct local port if no local port was initially specified when setting up the port forwarder ([#73676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73676), [@martin-helmich](https://github.com/martin-helmich))
- Fixed an issue with missing `apiVersion/kind` in object data sent to admission webhooks ([#74448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74448), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

#### Updates to existing commands
* Printing and output
  * Import a numeric ordering sorting library and use it in the sorting printer. ([#40746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40746), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

* Fixes a bug in openapi published for custom resources using x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields extensions, so that kubectl will allow sending unknown fields for that portion of the object. ([#79636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79636), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))