* kubeadm now allows mixing of init/cluster and join configuration in a single YAML file (although a warning gets printed in this case). ([#69426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69426), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))
* Pod disruption budgets shouldn't be checked for terminal pods while evicting ([#68892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68892), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))
* Update crictl to v1.12.0 ([#69033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69033), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
*[GCP] Added env variables to control CPU requests of kube-controller-manager and kube-scheduler. ([#68823](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68823), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
* Fixed panic on iSCSI volume tear down. ([#69140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69140), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* Fixed CSIDriver API object to allow missing fields. ([#69331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69331), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* Allows changing nodeName in endpoint update. ([#68575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68575), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))
* Reduced excessive logging from fluentd-gcp-scaler. ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))
* kubeadm: Fixed support of node certificates when joining a cluster ([#69328](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69328), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))
* Fix an issue where filesystems are not unmounted when a backend is not reachable and returns EIO. ([#67097](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67097), [@chakri-nelluri](https://github.com/chakri-nelluri))
* Use the mounted "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token" as the token file for running in-cluster based e2e testing. ([#69273](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69273), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
* Fix panic in kubectl rollout commands ([#69151](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69151), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Fix scheduler crashes when Prioritize Map function returns error. ([#69135](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69135), [@DylanBLE](https://github.com/DylanBLE))
* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* fix UnmountDevice failure on Windows ([#68608](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68608), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Adds permissions for startup of an on-cluster kube-controller-manager ([#69062](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69062), [@dghubble](https://github.com/dghubble))
* Get public IP for Azure vmss nodes. ([#68498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Deduplicate PATH items when reading plugins. ([#69170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69170), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))