* Add the path '/version/' to the `system:discovery` cluster role. ([#57368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57368), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

* adding predicates ordering for the kubernetes scheduler. ([#57168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57168), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

- Updated static pods are restarted 2s faster by correcting a safe but non-optimal ordering bug. ([#116690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116690), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]

* kubectl edit and kubectl apply will keep the ordering of elements in merged lists ([#45980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45980), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy))

cepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset/#rolling-updates) and [OnDelete](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset/#on-delete) update strategies.

* [alpha] StatefulSet authors should be able to relax the [ordering](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset/#orderedready-pod-management) and [parallelism](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset/#parallel-pod-management) policies for software that can...

- kubeadm: avoid double deletion of the upgrade prepull DaemonSet ([#80798](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80798), [@xlgao-zju](https://github.com/xlgao-zju))
- kubeadm: introduce deterministic ordering for the certificates generation in the phase command `kubeadm init phase certs`. ([#78556](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78556), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

#### 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))