#### kube-proxy:
- `--healthz-port` and `--metrics-port` flags are deprecated, please use `--healthz-bind-address` and `--metrics-bind-address` instead ([#88512](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88512), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Network]

  Provided you enable the `KubeletFineGrainedAuthz` feature gate, you can access kubelet's `/healthz` endpoint by granting the caller `nodes/helathz` permission in RBAC.
  Similarly you can also access  kubelet's `/pods` endpoint to fetch a list of Pods bound to that node by granting the caller `nodes/pods` permission in RBAC.

* The kube-apiserver's healthz now takes in an optional query parameter which allows you to disable health checks from causing healthz failures.  ([#70676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70676), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

* kubelet: send all recevied pods in one update ([#23141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23141), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* Add a SSHKey sync check to the master's healthz (when using SSHTunnels). ([#23167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23167), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))

During server startup, prior to the server reporting healthy (via `/healthz`), not all API groups may be reported.
Wait for the server to report healthy (via `/healthz`) before depending on the information provided by the discovery APIs.

- The kube-apiserver's healthz now takes in an optional query parameter which allows you to disable health checks from causing healthz failures.  ([#70676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70676), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- kubeadm: use etcd's /health endpoint for a HTTP liveness probe on localhost instead of having a custom health check using etcdctl ([#81385](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81385), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- A new API server flag `--encryption-provider-config-automatic-reload` was added to control when the encryption config should be automatically reloaded without needing to restart the server.  All KMS plugins are now merged into a single healthz check at `/healthz/kms-providers` when reload is enabled, or when only KMS v2 plugins are used. ([#113529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113529), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

  ([#41449](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41449),
  [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Kubelet: Remove the PLEG health check from /healthz, Kubelet will now report
* NodeNotReady on failed PLEG health check.
  ([#41569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41569),
  [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

components, but only worked when those components were local to the API server, and when kube-scheduler and kube-controller-manager exposed unsecured health endpoints. Instead of this API, etcd health is included in the kube-apiserver health check and kube-scheduler/kube-controller-manager health checks can be made directly against those components' health endpoints. ([#93570](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93570), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Cluster...