([#64248](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64248), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

### SIG CLI

* You can now use the `base64decode` function in kubectl go templates to decode base64-encoded data, such as `kubectl get secret SECRET -o go-template='{{ .data.KEY | base64decode }}'`. ([#60755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60755), [@glb](https://github.com/glb))

- '`kubeadm`: added validation to verify that the `CertificateKey` is a valid hex
  encoded AES key.' ([#120064](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120064), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))
- A customizable `OrderedScoreFuncs()` function was introduced. Out-of-tree plugins 

* Websocket requests may now authenticate to the API server by passing a bearer token in a websocket subprotocol of the form `base64url.bearer.authorization.k8s.io.<base64url-encoded-bearer-token>`. ([#47740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47740), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

*   Added **categorical data** processing layers:
    *   `IntegerLookup` & `StringLookup`: build an index of categorical feature
        values
    *   `CategoryEncoding`: turn integer-encoded categories into one-hot,
        multi-hot, or tf-idf encoded representations
    *   `CategoryCrossing`: create new categorical features representing
        co-occurrences of previous categorical feature values

  - `status.conditions` may not contain duplicate types
  - `status.conditions[*].status` is now required
  - `status.certificate` must be PEM-encoded, and contain only CERTIFICATE blocks ([#91685](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91685), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, CLI and Testing]

the garbage collector, quota, or the namespace controller. The client asks the server to return a `meta.k8s.io/v1 PartialObjectMetadata` object for list, get, delete, watch, and patch operations on both normal APIs and custom resources which can be encoded in protobuf for additional work. If the server does not yet support this API the client will gracefully fall back to JSON and transform the response objects into PartialObjectMetadata. ([#77819](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77819),...