- The command `kubeadm config print-defaults` is deprecated in favor of `kubeadm config print init-defaults` and `kubeadm config print join-defaults` ([#69617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69617), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

#### Defaults

 - The default spec.updateStrategy for the StatefulSet and DaemonSet kinds is
 RollingUpdate for the apps/v1beta2 group version. You can explicitly set
 the OnDelete strategy, and no strategy auto-conversion is applied to
 replace default values.

 - As mentioned in [Behavioral Changes](#behavioral-changes), selector
 defaults are disabled.

    *   Clients using older endpoints will be unaffected. This change is only at the REST API level and is independent of the default behavior of particular clients (e.g. this does not affect the default for the kubectl `--cascade` flag).
    *   If you upgrade your client-go libs and use the `AppsV1()` interface, please note that the default garbage collection behavior is changed.

### **Auth**

#### **Audit**

* The alpha `Initializers` admission plugin is no longer enabled by default. This matches the off-by-default behavior of the alpha API which drives initializer behavior. ([#66039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66039), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kubeadm: Default component configs are printable via kubeadm config print-default ([#66074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66074), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

- Feature gates CSIMigration to Beta (on by default) and CSIMigrationGCE to Beta (off by default since it requires installation of the GCE PD CSI Driver) ([#85231](https://github.com/kubernete...

- The RemoteRequestHeaderUID feature moves to beta and is now enabled by default. This makes the kube-apiserver propagate UIDs in the `X-Remote-Uid` header in requests to the aggregated API servers. The header is not honored by default for incoming requests, but that can be enabled by setting...

* Pod priority and preemption is now enabled by default. Even if you don't plan to use this feature, you might need to take some action immediately after upgrading. In multi-tenant clusters where not all users are trusted, you are advised to create appropriate quotas for two default priority classes, system-cluster-critical and system-node-critical, which are added to clusters by default. `ResourceQuota` should be created to limit users from creating Pods at these priorities...

    * ServiceDelimiter string Delimiter to use to separate overridden services (multiple services) Defaults to "&"
    * ServicenameDelimiter string Delimiter to use to separate servicename from its configuration parameters Defaults "|"
    * OverrideSeparator string Delimiter to use to separate region of occurrence, url and signing region for each override Defaults to ","

- E2e test for PodFsGroupChangePolicy ([#96247](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96247), [@saikat-royc](https://github.com/saikat-royc)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

- Updated `kube-openapi` to remove invalid defaults: OpenAPI spec no longer includes default of `{}` for certain fields where it did not make sense. ([#120757](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120757), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))