- The `--experimental-encryption-provider-config` flag is deprecated in favor of `--encryption-provider-config`. The old flag is accepted with a warning but will be removed in 1.14. ([#71206](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71206),...

#### kube-scheduler:
- A kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1alpha2 configuration file version is now accepted, with support for multiple scheduling profiles ([#87628](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87628), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

- A pod that the Kubelet rejects was still considered as being accepted for a brief period of time after rejection, which might cause some pods to be rejected briefly that could fit on the node.  A pod that is still terminating (but has status indicating it has failed) may also still be consuming resources and so should...

	// Its necessary to set the "X-Amz-Copy-Source" header for the request to be accepted by the handler.
	nilReq.Header.Set("X-Amz-Copy-Source", url.QueryEscape(SlashSeparator+nilBucket+SlashSeparator+nilObject))

	// execute the object layer set to `nil` test.

- Kube-apiserver: The `AdmissionConfiguration` type accepted by `--admission-control-config-file` has been promoted to `apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1` with no schema changes. ([#85098](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85098), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fixed issue with kubectl proxy so it will now proxy an empty path - e.g. http://localhost:8001 ([#39226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39226), [@luksa](https://github.com/luksa))
* Fixed an issue where commas were not accepted in --from-literal flags for the creation of secrets. ([#35191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35191), [@SamiHiltunen](https://github.com/SamiHiltunen))

- Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA): client-side validation of a ResourceHandle would have accepted a missing DriverName, whereas server-side validation then would have raised an error. ([#124075](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124075), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

### Controller Manager

- The Pod `spec.podOS` field is promoted to GA. The `IdentifyPodOS` feature gate unconditionally enabled, and will no longer be accepted as a `--feature-gates` parameter in 1.27. ([#111229](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111229), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))

set ... --local` commands. ([#77267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77267), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
- Support for parsing more v1.Taint forms has been added. For example, `key:effect`, `key=:effect-` are now accepted. ([#74159](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74159), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky))

### Cloud Provider