- Enable external plugins can be used as subcommands for kubectl create command if subcommand does not exist as builtin only when KUBECTL_ENABLE_CMD_SHADOW environment variable is exported. ([#116293](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116293), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Allow to monitor client-go DNS resolver latencies via `rest_client_dns_resolution_duration_seconds` Prometheus metric. ([#115357](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115357), [@mfojtik](https://github.com/mfojtik))

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- Added to `MutableFeatureGate` the ability to override the default setting of feature gates, to allow default-enabling a feature on a component-by-component basis instead of for all affected components simultaneously. ([#122647](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122647), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy))

- Allow-list of metric labels can be configured by supplying a manifest using the --allow-metric-labels-manifest flag ([#118299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118299), [@rexagod](https://github.com/rexagod)) [SIG Architecture and Instrumentation]