### API Change

- The default delegating authorization options now allow unauthenticated access to healthz, readyz, and livez.  A system:masters user connecting to an authz delegator will not perform an authz check. ([#98325](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98325), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud Provider and Scheduling]

- DRA: new API and several new features ([#125488](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125488), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, CLI, Cluster Lifecycle, Etcd, Node, Release, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

### External credential providers

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

**Note**: This only impacts the cluster if the ServiceAccount admission plugin is used (most cluster should have this on by default as recommended in https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/#serviceaccount), the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation is used by a service account (this annotation is not added by default), and Pods are using ephemeral containers.

### SIG Auth

Work this cycle focused on graduating existing functions, and on making security functions more understandable for users.

### API Change

- Add auth API to get self subject attributes (new selfsubjectreviews API is added). 
  The corresponding command for kubctl is provided - `kubectl auth whoami`. ([#111333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111333), [@nabokihms](https://github.com/nabokihms)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, CLI and Testing]

- Kube-proxy handles Terminating EndpointSlices conditions and enables zero downtime deployments for Services with ExternalTrafficPolicy=Local author: @andrewsykim ([#117718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117718), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network, Testing and Windows]

- Adds support for CEL expressions to v1alpha1 AuthorizationConfiguration webhook matchConditions. ([#121223](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121223), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]