- Graduated seccomp profile defaulting to GA.
  
  Set the kubelet `--seccomp-default` flag or `seccompDefault` kubelet configuration field to `true` to make pods on that node default to using the `RuntimeDefault` seccomp profile.
  

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* The OpenID Connect authenticator can now use a custom prefix, or omit the default prefix, for username and groups claims through the --oidc-username-prefix and --oidc-groups-prefix flags. For example, the authenticator can map a user with the username "jane" to "google:jane" by supplying the "google:" username prefix. ([#50875](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50875), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Fixed performance regression in scheduler caused by frequent metric lookup on critical code path. ([#117594](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117594), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k))
- Fixed restricted debug profile. ([#117543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117543), [@mochizuki875](https://github.com/mochizuki875))

  - *apiserver_cache_list_fetched_objects_total*: Counter of objects read from watch cache in the course of serving a LIST request, broken down by resource_prefix and index_name
  - *apiserver_cache_list_evaluated_objects_total*: Counter of objects tested in the course of serving a LIST request from watch cache, broken down by resource_prefix

With cluster-wide seccomp defaults, the kubelet uses the `RuntimeDefault` seccomp profile by default, rather than than `Unconfined`. This allows enhancing the default cluster wide workload security of the Kubernetes deployment. Security administrators will now sleep better knowing there...

- Kubeadm: fix error adding extra prefix unix:// to CRI endpoints that were missing URL scheme ([#110634](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110634), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

SeccompDefault promoted to beta, see the tutorial [Restrict a Container's Syscalls with seccomp](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/security/seccomp/#enable-the-use-of-runtimedefault-as-the-default-seccomp-profile-for-all-workloads) for more details.

### Promoted endPort in Network Policy to Stable

  label selectors.'
   ([#113699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113699), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
- Add `percentageOfNodesToScore` as a scheduler profile level parameter to API version `v1`. When a profile `percentageOfNodesToScore` is set, it will override global `percentageOfNodesToScore`. ([#112521](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112521), [@yuanchen8911](https://github.com/yuanchen8911))

  certificate.' ([#119859](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119859), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))
- Added `CAP_NET_RAW` to netadmin debug profile and removed privileges when debugging nodes. ([#118647](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118647), [@mochizuki875](https://github.com/mochizuki875))