- Added `WatchListClient` feature gate to `client-go`. When enabled, it allows the client to receive a stream of individual items instead of chunking from the server.
   ([#122571](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122571), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

* `kubeadm init` can now omit the tainting of the master node if configured to do so in `kubeadm.yaml` using `noTaintMaster: true`. For example, uses can create a file with the content:

```
apiVersion: [kubeadm.k8s.io/v1alpha1](http://kubeadm.k8s.io/v1alpha1)

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  The new feature gate activates a framework for fine-grained filtering of events related to scheduler plugins.
  In this release, no default scheduling plugins make use of the hinting framework, so you should not expect any behavior changes. ([#119328](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119328), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

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318F          ; disallowed                             # NA   <reserved-318F>
3190..3191    ; valid                  ;      ; NV8    # 1.1  IDEOGRAPHIC ANNOTATION LINKING MARK..IDEOGRAPHIC ANNOTATION REVERSE MARK
3192          ; mapped                 ; 4E00          # 1.1  IDEOGRAPHIC ANNOTATION ONE MARK
3193          ; mapped                 ; 4E8C          # 1.1  IDEOGRAPHIC ANNOTATION TWO MARK

  correctly with an external cloud provider. ([#124516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124516), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))
- Fixed an issue that prevents the linking of trace spans for requests that are proxied through kube-aggregator. ([#124189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124189), [@toddtreece](https://github.com/toddtreece))

the number of results to return. If more results exist, a token is returned that allows the client to continue the previous list call repeatedly until all results are retrieved.  The resulting list is identical to a list call that does not perform chunking, thanks to capabilities provided by etcd3.  This allows the server to use less memory and CPU when very large lists are returned. This feature is gated as APIListChunking and is not enabled by default. The 1.9 release will begin using this by de...

* Guaranteed admission for Critical Pods ([#40952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40952), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
* Switch to the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` label for marking and tainting the master node in kubeadm ([#41835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41835), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))