#### kubectl:
- the boolean and unset values for the --dry-run flag are deprecated and a value --dry-run=server|client|none will be required in a future version. ([#87580](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87580), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG CLI]

## Major Themes

### SIG API Machinery

For the 1.13 release, SIG API Machinery is happy to announce that the [dry-run functionality](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#dry-run) is now beta.

### SIG Auth

### Bug or Regression

- Added (dry run) and (server dry run) suffixes to `kubectl scale` command when `dry-run` is passed ([#114252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114252), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

*   kubectl `top node` now sorts by name and `top pod` sorts by namespace. Fixed a bug where results were inconsistently sorted. ([#53560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53560),[ @dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
*   Added --dry-run option to kubectl drain. ([#52440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52440),[ @juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))

* - kubeadm now supports "ci/latest-1.8" or "ci-cross/latest-1.8" and similar labels. ([#49119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49119), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
* kubeadm: Adds dry-run support for kubeadm using the `--dry-run` option ([#50631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50631), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

- Fixed no effect namespace when exposing deployment with --dry-run=client. ([#97492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97492), [@masap](https://github.com/masap)) [SIG CLI]

* kubectl: fixes issue with `-o yaml` and `-o json` omitting kind and apiVersion when used with `--dry-run` ([#61808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61808), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Bump Heapster to v1.5.2 ([#61396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61396), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

- Kubectl: restores `--dry-run`, `--dry-run=true`, and `--dry-run=false` for compatibility with pre-1.23 invocations. ([#107021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107021), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

- Kubectl stack traces now only print at verbose `-v=99` and not `-v=6` ([#108053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108053), [@eddiezane](https://github.com/eddiezane))
- Kubectl: restored `--dry-run`, `--dry-run=true`, and `--dry-run=false` for compatibility with pre-1.23 invocations. ([#107003](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107003), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto))

- Add attempts label to scheduler's PodSchedulingDuration metric. ([#92650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92650), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Instrumentation and Scheduling]
- Add client-side and server-side dry-run support to kubectl scale ([#89666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89666), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG CLI and Testing]