- 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]

* 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.

- 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]

- The `apiserver.latency.k8s.io/decode-response-object` annotation was added to the audit log to record the decoding time. ([#121512](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121512), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))

- `kubeadm`: improved the logic that checks whether a `systemd` service exists. ([#120514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120514), [@fengxsong](https://github.com/fengxsong))
- `kubeadm`: will now use universal deserializer to decode static pod. ([#120549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120549), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- `kubectl prune v2`: Switched annotation from `contains-group-resources` to `contains-group-kinds`,

* kubelet: fix bug where `runAsUser: MustRunAsNonRoot` strategy didn't reject a pod with a non-numeric `USER`. ([#56711](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56711), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))
* Fix a bug in GCE multizonal clusters where PersistentVolumes were sometimes created in zones without nodes. ([#52322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52322), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))