- Kube-apiserver: errors decoding objects in etcd are now recorded in an `apiserver_storage_decode_errors_total` counter metric ([#114376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114376), [@baomingwang](https://github.com/baomingwang)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

be removed in a future release. Authorizations for using pod security policy resources should change to reference the `policy` API group after upgrading to 1.11. ([#54933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54933), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))

* Add `--enable-admission-plugins` `--disable-admission-plugins` flags and deprecate `--admission-control`. When using the separate flag, the order in which they're specified doesn't matter.  ([#58123](https://github....

- Fix azure file migration issue ([#97877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97877), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Auth, Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix to recover CSI volumes from certain dangling attachments ([#96617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96617), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

- Kubernetes no longer monitors firewalld. On systems using firewalld for firewall
  maintenance, kube-proxy will take slightly longer to recover from disruptive
  firewalld operations that delete kube-proxy's iptables rules.

  As a side effect of these changes, kube-proxy's
  `sync_proxy_rules_last_timestamp_seconds` metric no longer behaves the

([#64248](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64248), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

### SIG CLI

* You can now use the `base64decode` function in kubectl go templates to decode base64-encoded data, such as `kubectl get secret SECRET -o go-template='{{ .data.KEY | base64decode }}'`. ([#60755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60755), [@glb](https://github.com/glb))

* Allows changing nodeName in endpoint update. ([#68575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68575), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))
* kube-apiserver would return 400 Bad Request when it couldn't decode a json patch. ([#68346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68346), [@CaoShuFeng](https://github.com/CaoShuFeng))
    * kube-apiserver would return 422 Unprocessable Entity when a json patch couldn't be applied to one object.

* Match GroupVersionKind against specific version ([#34010](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34010), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* fix yaml decode issue ([#34297](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34297), [@AdoHe](https://github.com/AdoHe))

- Add a helper function to decode scheduler plugin args. ([#80696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80696), [@hex108](https://github.com/hex108))

- Fix panic in JSON logging format caused by missing Duration encoder ([#101158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101158), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

- Fix panic in JSON logging format caused by missing Duration encoder ([#101159](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101159), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]