* Fixed --save-config in create subcommand to save the annotation ([#40289](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40289), [@xilabao](https://github.com/xilabao))
* Fixed an issue where 'kubectl get --sort-by=' would return an error if the specified fields in sort were not specified in one or more of the returned objects. ([#40541](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40541), [@fabianofranz](https://github.com/fabianofranz))

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Kube-proxy: Traffic from the cluster directed to ExternalIPs is always sent directly to the Service. ([#96296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96296), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

### Promoted SeccompDefault to Beta

- Set metrics-server's metric-resolution to 15s. ([#117121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117121), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]
- SubjectAccessReview requests sent to webhook authorizers now default `spec.resourceAttributes.version` to `*` if unset. ([#116937](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116937), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan)) [SIG Apps and Auth]

* Fixes an issue with missing apiVersion/kind in object data sent to admission webhooks ([#74448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74448), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Ignore extended resources that are not registered with kubelet during container resource allocation. ([#53547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53547), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))
* kubectl top pod and node should sort by namespace / name so that results don't jump around. ([#53560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53560), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

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- Fixed a kubelet issue that could result in invalid pod status updates to be sent to the api-server where pods would be reported in a terminal phase but also report a ready condition of true in some cases. ([#110480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110480), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage)) [SIG Node and...

- The audit event sourceIPs list will now always end with the IP that sent the request directly to the API server. ([#87167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87167), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]