- Added "netadmin" debugging profiles for kubectl debug. ([#115712](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115712), [@wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly)) [SIG CLI]
- Added `--output plaintext-openapiv2` argument to kubectl explain to use old openapiv2 `explain` implementation. ([#115480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115480), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))

- The `CSINodeInfo` feature gate that is GA since v1.17 is unconditionally enabled, and can no longer be specified via the `--feature-gates` argument. ([#96561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96561), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

- Added a new command line argument `--interactive` to kubectl. The new command line argument lets a user confirm deletion requests per resource interactively. ([#114530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114530), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

* Add a way to pass extra arguments to etcd. ([#63961](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63961), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- The `StartupProbe` feature gate that is GA since v1.20 is unconditionally enabled, and can no longer be specified via the `--feature-gates` argument. ([#104168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104168), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov))...

- If the parent directory of the file specified in the `--audit-log-path` argument does not exist, Kubernetes now creates it. ([#111225](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111225), [@vpnachev](https://github.com/vpnachev)) [SIG Auth]

- If the parent directory of the file specified in the `--audit-log-path` argument does not exist, Kubernetes now creates it. ([#111227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111227), [@vpnachev](https://github.com/vpnachev)) [SIG Auth]

- If the parent directory of the file specified in the `--audit-log-path` argument does not exist, Kubernetes now creates it. ([#110813](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110813), [@vpnachev](https://github.com/vpnachev)) [SIG Auth]

- `kubectl` will not print events if `--show-events=false` argument is passed to
  describe PVC subcommand. ([#120380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120380), [@MaGaroo](https://github.com/MaGaroo))
- `scheduler`: Fixed missing field `apiVersion` from events reported by the taint

  were unnecessarily using `--node-ip` with an external cloud provider in 1.23,
  and then running into problems with 1.24, could not fix the problem by just
  removing the unnecessary `--node-ip` from the kubelet arguments, because
  that wouldn't remove the annotation that caused the problems.) ([#112184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112184), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network and Node]