- `Kubectl set resources` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. `kubectl set subject` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. ([#85490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85490), [@sallyom](https://github.com/sallyom)) [SIG CLI]

and `apiserver_webhooks_x509_missing_san_total`. This metric measures a number of connections to webhooks/aggregated API servers that use certificates without Subject Alternative Names. It being non-zero is a warning sign that these connections will stop functioning in the future since Golang is going to deprecate x509 certificate subject Common Names for server hostname verification. ([#95396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95396), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG API Machinery,...

    * More details about the release https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/releases/tag/v1.2.0
* add local subject access review API ([#32407](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32407), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

via a new mime-type application/json;as=Table;v=v1alpha1;g=meta.k8s.io. The returned object (if the server supports it) will be of type meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1 with Table, and contain column and row information related to the resource. Each row will contain information about the resource - by default it will be the object metadata, but callers can add the ?includeObject=Object query parameter and receive the full object. In the future kubectl will use this to retrieve the results of `kubectl get`. ([#...

  - A server-side apply request that makes unrelated changes to an object which has duplicate items in a keyed list no longer fails, and leaves the existing duplicate items as-is.

* RBAC `v1beta1` RoleBinding/ClusterRoleBinding subjects changed `apiVersion` to `apiGroup` to fully-qualify a subject. ServiceAccount subjects default to an apiGroup of `""`, User and Group subjects default to an apiGroup of `"rbac.authorization.k8s.io"`. ([#41184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41184), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kubectl: --resource-version now works properly in label/annotate/set selector commands when racing with other clients to update the target object ([#85285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85285), [@liggitt](https...

* kubelets are no longer allowed to delete their own Node API object. Prior to 1.11, in rare circumstances related to cloudprovider node ID changes, kubelets would attempt to delete/recreate their Node object at startup. Kubelets older than 1.11 are not supported running against a v1.13+ API server. If an unsupported legacy kubelet encounters this situation, a cluster admin can remove the Node object: ([#71021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71021), [@liggitt](htt...

  remove unused rules immediately once they are no longer used.)

  (The threshold for "large" used here is currently "1000 endpoints" but
  this is subject to change.) ([#110334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110334), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- Add auth API to get self subject attributes (new selfsubjectreviews API is added).