*   Azure Load Balancer Auto Mode: Services can be annotated to allow auto selection of available load balancers and to provide specific availability sets that host the load balancers (for example, `service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-mode=auto|as1,as2...`)

### **CLI**

#### **Kubectl**

     disabled by setting the `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `false`.

### Cluster Lifecycle

- The `auto-detect` behavior of the kubelet's `--cloud-provider` flag is deprecated.

  - In version 1.8, the default value for the kubelet's `--cloud-provider` flag is `auto-detect`. Be aware that it works only on GCE, AWS and Azure.

### Failing Test

- Fixes the `should receive events on concurrent watches in same order` conformance test to work properly on clusters that auto-create additional configmaps in namespaces ([#101950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101950), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

* Make logdump support kubemark and support gke with 'use_custom_instance_list' ([#51834](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51834), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))
* Fixes an issue with APIService auto-registration affecting rolling HA apiserver restarts that add or remove API groups being served. ([#51921](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51921), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- `kube-controller-manager`: The `LegacyServiceAccountTokenCleanUp` feature gate is now `beta` and enabled by default. When enabled, legacy auto-generated service account token secrets are auto-labeled with a `kubernetes.io/legacy-token-invalid-since` label if the credentials have not been used in the time specified by `--legacy-service-account-token-clean-up-period` (defaulting to one year), **and** are referenced...

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  - The built-in `system:aws-cloud-provider` cluster role is deprecated and will not be auto-created in a future release. Deployments using the AWS cloud provider should grant required...

- Support for the alpha seccomp annotations `seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/pod` and `container.seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io` were deprecated since v1.19, now have been completely removed. The seccomp fields are no longer auto-populated when pods with seccomp annotations are created. Pods should use the corresponding pod or container `securityContext.seccompProfile` field instead. ([#114947](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114947), [@saschagrunert](https:/...

* The kubelet's `--cloud-provider=auto-detect` feature has been removed; make certain to specify the cloud provider. ([#56287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56287), [@stewart-yu](https://github.com/stewart-yu))

- A value of `Auto` is now a valid for the `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` annotation. ([#100728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100728), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))