- The "value" part in the `wait --for=jsonpath='{expression}'[=value]` is now
  optional. If the value is not provided i.e., the command looks like `wait --for=jsonpath='{expression}'`
  then the wait condition is interpreted as matched when the expression returns

- `kubectl create {clusterrole,role}`'s `--resources` flag now supports asterisk to specify all resources. ([#62945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62945), [@nak3](https://github.com/nak3))
- kubectl: the wait command now prints an error message and exits with the code 1, if there is no resources matching selectors ([#66692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66692), [@m1kola](https://github.com/m1kola))

 - Fix: support removal of nodes backed by deleted non VMSS instances on Azure ([#91184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91184), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
 - Fixed a 1.18 regression in wait.Forever that skips the backoff period on the first repeat ([#90476](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90476), [@zhan849](https://github.com/zhan849)) [SIG API Machinery]

For more information and for updates on resolution of this issue, see [#51899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/51899).

* Kubeadm now includes CoreDNS version 1.6.5 ([#85108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85108), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))
    *  - `kubernetes` plugin adds metrics to measure kubernetes control plane latency.
    *  -  the `health` plugin now includes the `lameduck` option by default, which waits for a duration before shutting down.

- The `wait.Poll*` and `wait.ExponentialBackoff*` functions have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.  Callers should switch to using `wait.PollUntilContextCancel`, `wait.PollUntilContextTimeout`, or `wait.ExponentialBackoffWithContext` as appropriate.
  

* kubectl port-forward now allows using resource name (e.g., deployment/www) to select a matching pod, as well as the use of --pod-running-timeout to wait until at least one pod is running. ([#59705](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59705), [@phsiao](https://github.com/phsiao))

- DaemonSets accept a MaxSurge integer or percent on their rolling update strategy that will launch the updated pod on nodes and wait for those pods to go ready before marking the old out-of-date pods as deleted. This allows workloads to avoid downtime during upgrades when deployed using DaemonSets. This feature is alpha and is behind the DaemonSetUpdateSurge feature gate. ([#96...

* Fix the bug where kubelet in the standalone mode would wait for the update from the apiserver source. ([#59276](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59276), [@roboll](https://github.com/roboll))

* Scale max-inflight limits together with master VM sizes. ([#73268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73268), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* kubeadm: explicitly wait for `etcd` to have grown when joining a new control plane ([#72984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72984), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))