- Kubeadm: graduated the kubeadm specific feature gate `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` to GA and locked it to `true` by default. The kubelet related ConfigMap and RBAC rules are now locked to have a simplified naming `*kubelet-config` instead of the legacy naming `*kubelet-config-x.yy`, where `x.yy` was the version of the control plane. If you have previously used the old naming format with...

- Removed feature gates `ServiceLoadBalancerClass` and `ServiceLBNodePortControl`. These feature gates were enabled (and locked) since `v1.24`. ([#112577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112577), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- GRPC probes are now a GA feature. `GRPCContainerProbe` feature gate was locked to default value and will be removed in v1.29. If you were setting this feature gate explicitly, please remove it now. ([#116233](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116233), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev))

   ([#123738](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123738), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92))
- Promoted `AdmissionWebhookMatchConditions` to GA. The feature is now stable, and the feature gate is now locked to default.
   ([#123560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123560), [@ivelichkovich](https://github.com/ivelichkovich))

- Suspend job to GA. The feature gate SuspendJob is locked and will be removed in 1.26. ([#108129](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108129), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))...

- Remove cAdvisor json metrics api collected by Kubelet ([#99236](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99236), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Node]
- Sysctls is now GA and locked to default ([#99158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99158), [@wgahnagl](https://github.com/wgahnagl)) [SIG Node]

- Remove `NodeLease` feature gate that was graduated and locked to stable in 1.17 release. ([#105222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105222), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

  - This change in behavior may be unexpected for some clusters and can be disabled by turning off the `ExecProbeTimeout` feature gate. This gate will be locked and removed in future releases so that exec probe timeouts are always respected. ([#94115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94115), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Node and Testing]

  enabled) has been removed. ([#118763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118763), [@Shubham82](https://github.com/Shubham82))

- Graduated `JobPodFailurePolicy` to GA and locked it to it's default. ([#125442](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125442), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Scheduling and Testing]
- Graduated the Job `successPolicy` field to beta.