Users of FlexVolume should move their workloads to CSI driver.

### Deprecation of klog specific flags

To simplify the code base, several [logging flags got marked as deprecated](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/system-logs/#klog) in Kubernetes 1.23.

    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-17)
  - [Changelog since v1.21.0](#changelog-since-v1210)
  - [What's New (Major Themes)](#whats-new-major-themes)
    - [Removal of several beta Kubernetes APIs](#removal-of-several-beta-kubernetes-apis)
    - [Kubernetes release cadence change](#kubernetes-release-cadence-change)
    - [External credential providers](#external-credential-providers)

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  * [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): cri-o v1.10 updated CRI version to v1alpha2 and made several bug and stability fixes. [@mrunalp]
  * [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): frakti v1.10 implemented GCE Persistent Disk as a high performance volume, fixed several bugs, added ARM64 support, and passed all CRI validation conformance tests and node e2e conformance tests. [@resouer]

* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Migrate scheduling_queue.go to structured logging ([#98358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98358), [@tanjing2020](https://github.com/tanjing2020)) [SIG Scheduling]
- Several flags related to the deprecated dockershim which are present in the kubelet command line are now deprecated. ([#98730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98730), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Node]

- The `IPTablesOwnershipCleanup` feature (KEP-3178) is now GA; kubelet no longer
  creates the `KUBE-MARK-DROP` chain (which has been unused for several releases)
  or the `KUBE-MARK-MASQ` chain (which is now only created by kube-proxy). ([#119374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119374), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

For the 1.13 release, SIG API Machinery is happy to announce that the [dry-run functionality](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#dry-run) is now beta.

### SIG Auth

### SIG Node

SIG-Node advanced several features and made incremental improvements in a few key topic areas this release.

*   AWS SDK is updated to version 1.12.7 ([#53561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53561),[ @justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

### **Azure**

*   Fixed several issues with properly provisioning Azure disk storage ([#55927](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55927),[ @andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))