- kubeadm: UnifiedControlPlaneImage is replaced by UseHyperKubeImage boolean value. ([#70793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70793), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))
- For kube-up and derived configurations, CoreDNS will honor master taints, for consistency with kube-dns behavior. ([#70868](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70868), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

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- In a scheduler with `Permit` plugins, when a Pod is rejected during `WaitOnPermit`, the scheduler records the plugin.
  The scheduler will use the record to honor cluster events and queueing `hints registered` for the plugin, to inform whether to retry the pod. ([#119785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119785), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

- Fixed a regression in the pod binding subresource to honor the `metadata.uid` precondition.

- The AWS credential provider can now obtain ECR credentials even without the AWS cloud provider or being on an EC2 instance. Additionally, AWS credential provider caching has been improved to honor the ECR credential timeout. ([#75587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75587), [@tiffanyfay](https://github.com/tiffanyfay))


### Azure

- Kubectl: fix the bug that kubectl autoscale does not honor '--name' flag ([#91855](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91855), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG CLI]
- Kubectl: fix the bug that kubectl scale does not honor '--timeout' flag ([#91858](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91858), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG CLI]

- `kubectl exec` and `kubectl attach` now honor the `--quiet` flag which suppresses output from the local binary that could be confused by a script with the remote command output (all non-failure output is hidden). In addition, print inline with exec and attach the list of alternate containers when...

- The `EndpointSlicen Mirroring controller` no longer mirrors the `...

- Fixes a regression in the pod binding subresource to honor the `metadata.uid` precondition.

- `kubectl create|delete|get|replace --raw` commands now honor server root paths specified in the kubeconfig file. ([#131165](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131165), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)