- [`KT-60749`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-60749) Scripting: default definition as a fallback
- [`KT-60199`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-60199) K2 scripting: exception on script opening
- [`KT-60193`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-60193) K2 scripts: configuration discovery fails silently from time to time

* Restored the ability of kubectl running inside a pod to consume resource files specifying a different namespace than the one the pod is...

- E2e: tests can now register callbacks with `ginkgo.BeforeEach`, `ginkgo.AfterEach` or `ginkgo.DeferCleanup` directly after creating a framework instance and are guaranteed that their code is called after the framework is initialized and before it gets cleaned up. `ginkgo.DeferCleanup`...

  - Better detection of installed CRI.
  - Better output for image pull errors.
- Improved air-gapped and offline support
  - kubeadm now handles air-gapped environments by using the local client version as a fallback.
  - Some kubeadm commands are now allowed to work in a completely offline mode.
- Certificate handling improvements:
  - Renew certs as part of upgrade.

- proxy/transport now supports Content-Encoding: deflate ([#76551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76551), [@JieJhih](https://github.com/JieJhih))
- Admission webhooks are now properly called for `scale` and `deployments/rollback` subresources. ([#76849](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76849), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

## API Changes

- 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]

* 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))

- 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))