- The plugin mechanism functionality now closely follows the git plugin design ([#66876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66876), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))

- Switched intstr.Type to sized integer to follow API guidelines and improve compatibility with proto libraries ([#83956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83956), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    * `externalTrafficPolicy` field, the values chnag as follows:
          * "OnlyLocal" becomes "Local"
          * "Global" becomes "Cluster".

- Implemented API streaming for the `watch-cache`
  
  When `sendInitialEvents` `ListOption` is set together with `watch=true`, it begins the watch stream with synthetic init events followed by a synthetic "Bookmark" after which the server continues streaming events. ([#110960](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110960), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))
- Introduced API for streaming.
  

* Map correct vmset name for Azure internal load balancers. ([#59747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59747), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- CoreDNS correctly implements DNS spec for Services with externalNames that look like IP addresses. Kube-dns does not follow the spec for the same case, resulting in a behavior change when moving from Kube-dns to CoreDNS. See: [coredns/coredns#2324](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/2324)

* CRI now defines mounting behavior. If the host path doesn't exist, the runtime should return an error. If the host path is a symlink, the runtime should follow the symlink and mount the real destination to the container. ([#61460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61460), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

### SIG OpenStack

    * `kubectl create configmap` has a new option `--from-env-file` that populates a configmap from file which follows a key=val format for each line. ([#38882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38882), [@fraenkel](https://github.com/fraenkel))

    * `kubectl create secret` has a new option `--from-env-file` that populates a secret from file which follows a key=val format for each line.

  * Printing/describe

- 'Promoted `cronjob_job_creation_skew` metric to stable to follow the cronjob v2 controller,
  the following metrics had their name updated to match metrics API guidelines:
    - `cronjob_job_creation_skew_duration_seconds` -> `job_creation_skew_duration_seconds`.' ([#113008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113008), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

- Implemented API for streaming for the `etcd` store implementation.
  When `sendInitialEvents ListOption` is set together with `watch=true`, it begins the watch stream with synthetic init events followed by a synthetic `Bookmark`, after which the server continues streaming events. ([#119557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119557), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))