* `kubectl create configmap` has a new option `--from-env-file` that populates a configmap from file which follows a key=val format for each line. ([#38882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38882), [@fraenkel](https://github.com/fraenkel))

    * `kubectl create secret` has a new option `--from-env-file` that populates a secret from file which follows a key=val format for each line.

  * Printing/describe

- 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))

- 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]