## **Notable Features**

Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo. Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community)

  * The `--audit-policy-file` option is required if the `AdvancedAuditing` feature is not explicitly turned off (`--feature-gates=AdvancedAuditing=false`) on the API server.
  * The audit log file defaults to JSON encoding when using the advanced auditing feature gate.
  * An audit policy file without either an `apiVersion` or a `kind` field may be treated as invalid.

      - [kube-apiserver:](#kube-apiserver-2)
      - [kube-scheduler:](#kube-scheduler-1)
      - [kube-proxy:](#kube-proxy-1)
      - [Features graduated to beta:](#features-graduated-to-beta)
      - [Features graduated to GA:](#features-graduated-to-ga)
    - [Feature](#feature-5)
      - [Metrics:](#metrics)
    - [Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)](#other-bug-cleanup-or-flake-1)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-19)

### Feature

- Add cloud-controller-manager feature gate CloudControllerManagerWatchBasedRoutesReconciliation ([#131220](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131220), [@lukasmetzner](https://github.com/lukasmetzner)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- The following features are now GA, and the associated feature gates are deprecated and will be removed in a future release:
  - CSIPersistentVolume
  - GCERegionalPersistentDisk
  - KubeletPluginsWatcher
  - VolumeScheduling
- kubeadm

## Notable Features
Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo.  Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from the [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md).

* The dynamic Kubelet config feature is now beta, and the DynamicKubeletConfig feature gate is on by default. In order to use dynamic Kubelet config, ensure that the Kubelet's --dynamic-config-dir option is set.  ([#64275](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64275), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

in order to bring it to GA in a future release, as well as developing the [Cluster API](https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-deploy/tree/master/cluster-api). For kubeadm, most new features, such as support for CoreDNS, IPv6 and Dynamic Kubelet Configuration, have gone in as alpha features. We expect to graduate these features to beta and beyond in the next release. The initial Cluster API spec and GCE sample implementation were developed from scratch during this cycle, and we look forward to stabilizing...

- The WatchBookmark feature is promoted to GA. With WatchBookmark feature, clients are able to request watch events with BOOKMARK type. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#watch-bookmarks for more details. ([#83195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83195), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
- Promote NodeLease feature to GA.

/kubernetes/pull/60115), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))

* The LocalStorageCapacityIsolation feature is beta and enabled by default.  The LocalStorageCapacityIsolation feature added a new resource type ResourceEphemeralStorage "ephemeral-storage" so that this resource can be allocated, limited, and consumed as the same way as CPU/memory. All the features related to resource management (resource request/limit, quota, limitrange) are available for local ephemeral storage. This...