- Kubeadm:  'kubeadm alpha kubelet config download' has been removed, please use 'kubeadm upgrade node phase kubelet-config' instead ([#87944](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87944), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

 - Kubeadm: Move the "kubeadm init" phase "kubelet-start" later in the init workflow, after the "kubeconfig" phase. This makes kubeadm start the kubelet only after the KubeletConfiguration component config file (/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml) is generated and solves a problem where init systems like OpenRC cannot crashloop the...

* kubeadm: add mandatory "--config" flag to "kubeadm alpha phase preflight" ([#68446](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68446), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
* Apply user configurations for local etcd ([#68334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68334), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#118192](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118192), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

    * See https://istio.io/news/releases/0.x/announcing-0.6/ for full Isto release notes.
* Phase `kubeadm alpha phase kubelet` is added to support dynamic kubelet configuration in kubeadm. ([#57224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57224), [@xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))

- Kubeadm: unhide the "etcd-join" phase of "kubeadm join" to allow on-demand execution of the phase if the ControlPlaneLocalMode feature gate is not enabled ([#135482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135482), [@borovetsav](https://github.com/borovetsav)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubeadm: add the "--kubeconfig" flag to the "kubeadm init phase upload-certs" command to allow users to pass a custom location for a kubeconfig file. ([#94765](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94765), [@zhanw15](https://github.com/zhanw15)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Fix cadvisor_unsupported and the crossbuild ([#35817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35817), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))
* [PHASE 1] Opaque integer resource accounting. ([#31652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31652), [@ConnorDoyle](https://github.com/ConnorDoyle))

  - `kubeadm config upload` has been deprecated, as its replacement is now graduated. Please use `kubeadm init phase upload-config` instead. ([#77946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77946), [@Klaven](https://github.com/Klaven))

- Scheduler extender filter interface now can report unresolvable failed nodes in the new field `FailedAndUnresolvableNodes` of  `ExtenderFilterResult` struct. Nodes in this map will be skipped in the preemption phase. ([#92866](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92866), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc)) [SIG Scheduling]