### Cluster Provisioning Scripts
* The bash AWS deployment via kube-up.sh has been deprecated. See http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/aws/ for alternatives. ([#38772](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38772), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))

- CephFS volume plugin ( `kubernetes.io/cephfs`) was removed in this release and the `cephfs` volume type became non-functional. Alternative is to use CephFS CSI driver (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/) in your Kubernetes Cluster. A re-deployment of your application is required to use the new driver if you were using `kubernetes.io/cephfs` volume plugin before upgrading cluster version...

- Expanded the on-disk kubelet credential provider configuration to allow an optional `tokenAttribute`...

 - CephFS volume plugin (`kubernetes.io/cephfs`) has been deprecated in this release and will be removed in a subsequent release. The alternative is to use the CephFS CSI driver (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/) in your Kubernetes cluster. ([#118143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118143), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

 - `kubeadm`: a separate "super-admin.conf" file is now deployed. The User in `admin.conf` is...

### CronJob controller v2 is available through feature gate

### SIG Network

The main milestones for SIG Network this release are the graduation of IPVS-based load balancing and CoreDNS to general availability.

IPVS is an alternative approach to in-cluster load balancing that uses in-kernel hash tables rather than the previous iptables approach, while CoreDNS is a replacement for kube-dns for service discovery.

### SIG Node

The code which implements them will be removed in a future release, so users of those need to start replacing the deprecated flags with some alternative solutions.

### Software Supply Chain SLSA Level 1 Compliance in the Kubernetes Release Process

- New metrics: `apiserver_kube_aggregator_x509_missing_san_total` and `apiserver_webhooks_x509_missing_san_total`. This metric measures a number of connections to webhooks/aggregated API servers that use certificates without Subject Alternative Names. It being non-zero is a warning sign that these connections will stop functioning in the future since Golang is going to deprecate x509 certificate subject Common Names for server hostname verification. ([#95396](https://github.com/kubern...

- Remove the deprecated flag `--experimental-check-node-capabilities-before-mount`. With CSI now GA, there is a better alternative. Remove any use of  `--experimental-check-node-capabilities-before-mount` from your kubelet scripts or manifests. ([#104732](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104732), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))