* `kubectl patch` now supports `--dry-run`. ([#60675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60675), [@timoreimann](https://github.com/timoreimann))

- Add attempts label to scheduler's PodSchedulingDuration metric. ([#92650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92650), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Instrumentation and Scheduling]
- Add client-side and server-side dry-run support to kubectl scale ([#89666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89666), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

* - kubeadm now supports "ci/latest-1.8" or "ci-cross/latest-1.8" and similar labels. ([#49119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49119), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
* kubeadm: Adds dry-run support for kubeadm using the `--dry-run` option ([#50631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50631), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

* Fixes a bug where dry-run is not honored for pod/eviction sub-resource. ([#76969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76969), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

*   kubectl `top node` now sorts by name and `top pod` sorts by namespace. Fixed a bug where results were inconsistently sorted. ([#53560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53560),[ @dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
*   Added --dry-run option to kubectl drain. ([#52440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52440),[ @juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))

- Added error message "dry-run can not be used when --force is set" when dry-run and force flags are set in replace command. ([#110326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110326), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Fixed a bug where dry-run is not honored for pod/eviction sub-resource. ([#76969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76969), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

- Kubeadm: add the `--dry-run` flag to the `control-plane` phase of "kubeadm init". ([#102722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102722), [@vinayakankugoyal](https://github.com/vinayakankugoyal))

    * `kubectl set selector` and `kubectl set subject` no longer print "running in local/dry-run mode..." at the top.  The output can now be piped and interpretted as yaml or json ([#46507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46507), [@bboreham](https://github.com/bboreham))

* Implement dry run support in kubefed init ([#36447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36447), [@irfanurrehman](https://github.com/irfanurrehman))