* `kubectl wait` is a new command that allows waiting for one or more resources to be deleted or to reach a specific condition. It adds a `kubectl wait --for=[delete|condition=condition-name] resource/string` command. ([#64034](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64034), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

* Kubeadm now includes CoreDNS version 1.6.5 ([#85108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85108), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))
    *  - `kubernetes` plugin adds metrics to measure kubernetes control plane latency.
    *  -  the `health` plugin now includes the `lameduck` option by default, which waits for a duration before shutting down.

* Only wait for cache syncs once in NodeController ([#34851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34851), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))
* NodeController waits for informer sync before doing anything ([#34809](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34809), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

* Skip CLOSE_WAIT e2e test if server is 1.4.5 ([#36404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36404), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))
* Adds etcd3 changes ([#36232](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36232), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

ts feature gate. It can be used to tell kubeadm to wait for all control plane components to be ready when running "kubeadm init" or "kubeadm join --control-plane". Currently kubeadm only waits for the kube-apiserver. The "kubeadm join" workflow now includes a new experimental phase called "wait-control-plane". This phase will be marked as non-experimental when WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents becomes GA. Accordingly a "kubeadm init" phase "wait-control-plane" will also be available once WaitForA...

- Added ability for `kubectl wait` to wait on arbitary JSON path ([#105776](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105776), [@lauchokyip](https://github.com/lauchokyip))

- Fix issues when supported huge page sizes changes ([#80831](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80831), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fix kube-apiserver startup to wait for APIServices to be installed into the HTTP handler before reporting readiness. ([#89147](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89147), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts)) [SIG API Machinery]

  2. if there's a transient error happened during "provisioning/deletion", i.e., a volume is still in-use while a deleteVolume has been called, original `storage_operation_duration_seconds` will NOT wait until a volume has been finally deleted before reporting an inaccurate...

- Add kubectl wait  --ignore-not-found flag ([#90969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90969), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0)) [SIG CLI]

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ...