run inside a pod using a kubeconfig file now use the namespace specified in the kubeconfig file, instead of using the pod namespace. If no kubeconfig file is used, or the kubeconfig does not specify a namespace, the pod namespace is still used as a fallback. ([#44570](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44570), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    * Fixed `kubectl cluster-info` dump to support multi-container pod. ([#44088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44088),...

- Kubeadm: support automatic retry after failing to pull image ([#86899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86899), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- Kubeadm: upgrade supports fallback to the nearest known etcd version if an unknown k8s version is passed ([#88373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88373), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Fallback from OpenAPI V3 to V2 when the OpenAPI V3 document is invalid or incomplete. ([#117980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117980), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3)) [SIG CLI]

  The `EventsToRegister` in `EnqueueExtension` changed the return value from `ClusterEvent` to `ClusterEventWithHint`. `ClusterEventWithHint` allows each plugin to filter out more useless events via the callback function named `QueueingHintFn`.

- Kubeadm: remove the deprecated / NO-OP phase `update-cluster-status`...

- Faster mount detection for linux kernel 5.10+ using openat2 speeding up pod churn rates. On Kernel versions less 5.10, it will fallback to using the original way of detecting mount points i.e by parsing /proc/mounts. ([#109217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109217), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))

* Fix panic in kubectl rollout commands ([#69150](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69150), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* kube-scheduler now fallbacks to emitting events using core/v1 Events when events.k8s.io/v1beta1 is disabled. ([#83692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83692), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

- Ensure all vSphere nodes are are tracked by volume attach-detach controller ([#96689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96689), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Ensure empty string annotations are copied over in rollbacks. ([#94858](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94858), [@waynepeking348](https://github.com/waynepeking348))

* Fix scheduler crashes when Prioritize Map function returns error. ([#69618](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69618), [@DylanBLE](https://github.com/DylanBLE))
* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))