- Kubernetes will now consume the AWS region list from the AWS SDK instead of a hard-coded list in the cloud provider. ([#75990](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75990), [@mcrute](https://github.com/mcrute))

* Filter duplicate network packets in promiscuous bridge mode (with ebtables) ([#28717](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28717), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
* Refactor to simplify the hard-traveled path of the KubeletConfiguration object ([#29216](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29216), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

addition, we’ve introduced a new “soft” kind of node selector that is just a
hint to the scheduler; the scheduler will try to satisfy these requests but it
does not guarantee they will be satisfied. Both the “hard” and “soft” variants

- kubectl supports copying files with wild card ([#72641](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72641), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- The `matchLabelKeys/mismatchLabelKeys` feature is introduced to the hard/soft `PodAffinity/PodAntiAffinity`. ([#116065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116065), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

* By default, --low-diskspace-threshold-mb is not set, and --eviction-hard includes "nodefs.available<10%,nodefs.inodesFree<5%" ([#46448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46448), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))