- Kube-apiserver: Promoted the `StructuredAuthenticationConfiguration` feature gate to GA. ([#131916](https://github.com/kubernetes/...

- Disallow `k8s.io` and `kubernetes.io` namespaced extra key in structured authentication configuration. ([#126553](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126553), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Auth]

- The following features are unconditionally enabled and the corresponding `--feature-gates` flags have been removed: `PodPriority`,...

- SELinuxChangePolicy and SELinuxMount graduated to Beta. SELinuxMount stays off by default. ([#130544](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130544), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Auth, Node and Storage]

- Added apiserver_envelope_encryption_kms_operations_latency_seconds metric to measure the KMSv2 grpc calls latency. ([#115649](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115649), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Testing]

- Using exec auth plugins with kubectl no longer results in warnings about constructing many client instances from the same exec auth config. ([#97857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97857), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]
- When a CNI plugin returns dual-stack pod IPs, kubelet will now try to respect the

- Fix an ephemeral port exhaustion bug caused by improper connection management that occurred when a large number of objects were handled by kubectl while exec auth was in use. ([#112339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112339), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

- Create HPA v2 from v2beta2 with some fields changed. (#102534, @wangyysde) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Autoscaling and Testing]

- Kube-controller-manager: The `LegacyServiceAccountTokenCleanUp` feature gate is now beta and enabled by default. When enabled, legacy auto-generated service account token secrets are auto-labeled with a `kubernetes.io/legacy-token-invalid-since` label if the credentials have not been used in the time specified by `--legacy-ser...

- Removed `WindowsHostProcessContainers` feature-gate. ([#117570](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117570), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Node and Windows]