- `kubeadm`: added a new "kubeadm config validate" command that can be used to
  validate any input config file. Use the `--config` flag to pass a config file
  to it. See the command `--help` screen for more information. As a result of adding
  this new command, enhance the validation capabilities of the existing "kubeadm

- Resolves a spurious "Unknown discovery response content-type" error in client-go discovery requests by tolerating extra content-type parameters in API responses ([#117637](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117637), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Support German cloud for azure disk mount feature ([#50673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50673), [@clement-buchart](https://github.com/clement-buchart))
* Fix overlay2 container disk metrics for Docker and CRI-O ([#54827](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54827), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

  - Server-side feature gate: `TranslateStreamCloseWebsocketRequests`
  - Client-side (kubectl) feature gate: `KUBECTL_REMOTE_COMMAND_WEBSOCKETS`
  - To disable RemoteCommand over WebSockets for kubectl, the environment variable feature gate must be explicitly set to `false`: `KUBECTL_REMOTE_COMMAND_WEBSOCKETS=false`.
   ([#123281](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123281), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3))

- Fix API comment for the Job Ready field in status ([#121765](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121765), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

- Add auth API to get self subject attributes (new selfsubjectreviews API is added). 
  The corresponding command for kubctl is provided - `kubectl auth whoami`. ([#111333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111333), [@nabokihms](https://github.com/nabokihms)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, CLI and Testing]