### SIG CLI

- Added a sample-cli-plugin staging repository and cli-runtime staging repository to help showcase the new kubectl plugins mechanism. ([#67938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67938), [#67658](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67658), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

  // +optional
  repeated string loadBalancerSourceRanges = 9;

  // externalName is the external reference that discovery mechanisms will
  // return as an alias for this service (e.g. a DNS CNAME record). No
  // proxying will be involved.  Must be a lowercase RFC-1123 hostname

- The `v1` version of `LeaderMigrationConfiguration` supports only `leases` API for leader election. To use formerly supported mechanisms, please continue using `v1beta1`. ([#108016](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108016), [@jiahuif](https://github.com/jiahuif))
- The kubelet now creates an iptables chain named `KUBE-IPTABLES-HINT` in

- Promoted CRI communication of the cgroup driver mechanism to beta. The `KubeletCgroupDriverFromCRI` feature gate is now in beta and enabled by default. This allows the kubelet to query the container runtime using CRI to determine the mechanism for cgroup management. If the container runtime doesn't support this, the kubelet falls back to using the configuration file (you can also use the deprecated...

### SIG CLI

SIG CLI's main focus this release was on refactoring `kubectl` internals to improve composability, readability and testability of `kubectl` commands. Those refactors will allow the team to extract a mechanism for extensibility of kubectl -- that is, plugins -- in the next releases.

### SIG Cluster Lifecycle

* Advanced auditing is the default auditing mechanism at `v1beta1`. The new version introduces the following changes:

* Add mechanism for Admission Webhooks to specify which version of AdmissionReview they support ([#74998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74998), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))
    * Add mechanism for CRD Conversion Webhooks to specify which version of ConversionReview they support

   ([#123001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123001), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

### SIG Cloud Provider

- Deprecate `--record` flag in `kubectl`. The `--record` flag is being replaced with the [mechanism](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-cli/859-kubectl-headers) which annotates HTTP requests with kubectl command details. ([#102873](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102873), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))...