- `kubectl apply` now coerces `null` values for labels and annotations in manifests to empty string values, 
consistent with typed JSON metadata decoding, rather than dropping all labels and annotations ([#129257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129257), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Feature

	dobjects := make([]ObjectInfo, len(poolIndices))

	// Delete concurrently in all server pools that reported no error or read quorum error
	// where the read quorum issue is from metadata inconsistency.
	var wg sync.WaitGroup
	for idx, pe := range poolIndices {
		if v, ok := pe.Err.(InsufficientReadQuorum); ok && v.Type != RQInconsistentMeta {
			derrs[idx] = InsufficientWriteQuorum{}
			continue
		}

	c.Assert(createdBucket.Name != "", true)

	// Parse the bucket modtime
	creationTime, err := time.Parse(iso8601TimeFormat, createdBucket.CreationDate)
	c.Assert(err, nil)

	// Check if bucket modtime is consistent (not less than current time and not late more than 5 minutes)
	timeNow := time.Now().UTC()
	c.Assert(creationTime.Before(timeNow), true)
	c.Assert(timeNow.Sub(creationTime) < time.Minute*5, true)
}

- Added `ConsistentListFromCache` feature gate that allows apiserver to serve consistent lists from cache. ([#118508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118508), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

- Added the `WatchList` method to the `rest client` in `client-go`. When used,
  it establishes a stream to obtain a consistent snapshot of data from the server.
  This method is meant to be used by the generated client. ([#122657](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122657), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery]

          <description>The subprojects (formerly called modules) to build as a part of this
            project. Each subproject listed is a relative path to the directory containing the subproject.
            To be consistent with the way default URLs are calculated from parent, it is recommended
            to have subproject names match artifact ids.</description>
          <association>
            <type>String</type>

- github.com/pquerna/ffjson: [af8b230](https://github.com/pquerna/ffjson/tree/af8b230)
- github.com/quasilyte/go-consistent: [c6f3937](https://github.com/quasilyte/go-consistent/tree/c6f3937)
- github.com/ryanuber/go-glob: [256dc44](https://github.com/ryanuber/go-glob/tree/256dc44)
- github.com/shirou/gopsutil: [c95755e](https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/tree/c95755e)

	([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/federation/federated-replicasets.md))
	([kubernetes/features#46](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/46))
  - [beta] `Federated Secrets` are created and kept consistent across all clusters in a federation.
    ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/federation/federated-secrets.md))
    ([kubernetes/features#68](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/68))

* `--output-version` is ignored for all commands except `kubectl convert`.  This is consistent with the generic nature of `kubectl` CRUD commands and the previous removal of `--api-version`.  Specific versions can be specified in the resource field: `resource.version.group`, `jobs.v1.batch`. ([#41576](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41576),...

- Fixed inconsistency in the calculation of number of nodes that have an image, which affect the scoring in the `ImageLocality` plugin. ([#116938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116938), [@olderTaoist](https://github.com/olderTaoist))