- `can-i` to see if you can perform an action ([#41077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41077), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

#### Updates to existing commands
* Printing and output
  * Import a numeric ordering sorting library and use it in the sorting printer. ([#40746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40746), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

- Kubeadm: improve the strict parsing of user YAML/JSON configuration files. Next to printing warnings for unknown and duplicate fields (current state), also print warnings for fields with incorrect case sensitivity - e.g. `controlPlaneEndpoint` (valid), `ControlPlaneEndpoint` (invalid). Instead of only printing warnings during `init` and `join` also print warnings when downloading the ClusterConfiguration, KubeletConfiguration or KubeProxyConfiguration...

* Improves how 'kubectl' uses the terminal size when printing help and usage. ([#34502](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34502), [@fabianofranz](https://github.com/fabianofranz))

- Improved scheduling latency when many gated pods ([#124849](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124849), [@gabesaba](https://github.com/gabesaba)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]
- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.28 regression printing pods with invalid initContainer status ([#124909](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124909), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Node]

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

### Feature

- Kube-apiserver: fixed a 1.28 regression printing pods with invalid initContainer status. ([#124906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124906), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Bug or Regression

- If firstTimestamp is not set use firstTimestamp or eventTime when printing event ([#91056](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91056), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI]
- hyperkube: Use debian-hyperkube-base@v1.1.0 image
  

- Fix image pulling failure when IMDS is unavailable in kubelet startup ([#110523](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110523), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix printing resources with int64 fields ([#110603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110603), [@sanchezl](https://github.com/sanchezl)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fix printing resources with int64 fields ([#110408](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110408), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]