- Implemented API for streaming for the `etcd` store implementation.
  When `sendInitialEvents ListOption` is set together with `watch=true`, it begins the watch stream with synthetic init events followed by a synthetic `Bookmark`, after which the server continues streaming events. ([#119557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119557), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

- YAML documents separators ("---") can now be followed by whitespace and comments ("# ....") on the same line. This fixes a bug where documents starting with a comment after the separator were ignored. Other types of content on the same line will result in an error. ([#103457](https://github.com/kub...

- Modify DNS-1123 error messages to indicate that RFC 1123 is not followed exactly ([#94182](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94182), [@mattfenwick](https://github.com/mattfenwick)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Network and Node]

- Kube-apiserver: redirects from backend API servers are no longer followed when checking availability with requests to `/apis/$group/$version` ([#112772](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112772), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Kubelet is no longer able to recover from device manager state file older than 1.20. If the proper recommended upgrade flow is followed, there should be no issue. ([#123398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123398), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]