* 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]

### Feature

- 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]

- Kubeadm: Added error printing during retries related to the `WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents` functionality at verbosity level 5. ([#134433](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134433), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

### 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
  

* Remove ScrubDNS interface from cloudprovider. ([#56955](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56955), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Fixed a garbage collection race condition where objects with ownerRefs pointing to cluster-scoped objects could be deleted incorrectly. ([#57211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57211), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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

- 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]

- Get-kube.sh: fix order to get the binaries from the right bucket ([#91635](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91635), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release]
- If firstTimestamp is not set use eventTime when printing event ([#89999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89999), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI]