*   Azure Load Balancer Auto Mode: Services can be annotated to allow auto selection of available load balancers and to provide specific availability sets that host the load balancers (for example, `service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-mode=auto|as1,as2...`)

### **CLI**

#### **Kubectl**

 - The `batch/v2alpha1.ScheduledJob` was removed. Use `batch/v1beta1.CronJob` instead.

### Auth

 - The RBAC v1alpha1 API group is deprecated in favor of RBAC v1.

 - The API server flag `--experimental-bootstrap-token-auth` is deprecated in favor of `--enable-bootstrap-token-auth`. The `--experimental-bootstrap-token-auth` flag will be removed in version 1.9.

### Autoscaling

- 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

- 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...

* Bug fixes:

  * Make gcp auth provider not to override the Auth header if it's already exits ([#45575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45575), [@wanghaoran1988](https://github.com/wanghaoran1988))

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- HPA controller exposes the following metrics from the kube-controller-manager....

  - The built-in `system:aws-cloud-provider` cluster role is deprecated and will not be auto-created in a future release. Deployments using the AWS cloud provider should grant required...

- Fixes the `should receive events on concurrent watches in same order` conformance test to work properly on clusters that auto-create additional configmaps in namespaces. ([#101950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101950), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    - [API-machinery](#api-machinery)
    - [Auth](#auth)
    - [Azure](#azure)
    - [CLI](#cli)
    - [Network](#network)
  - [Before Upgrading](#before-upgrading)
  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)
  - [Deprecations](#deprecations)
  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-13)
    - [Apps](#apps)
    - [AWS](#aws)
    - [Auth](#auth-1)
    - [CLI](#cli-1)