* kube-apiserver --advertise-address is now set using downward API for self-hosted Kubernetes with kubeadm. ([#56084](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56084), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

### Cluster Lifecycle

#### kubeadm

* [beta] A new `upgrade` subcommand allows you to automatically upgrade a self-hosted cluster created with kubeadm. ([#296](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/296), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

  For more information, see [#57198](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/57198).

*   Mutating and validating webhook configurations are continuously polled by the API server (once per second). This issue will be fixed in a future release.

  For more information, see [#56357](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/56357).

* Fix erroneous FailedSync and FailedMount events being periodically and indefinitely posted on Pods after kubelet is restarted ([#44781](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44781), [@wongma7](https://github.com/wongma7))

* Self hosted is no longer supported in the standard workflow. The feature flags have been removed and your self hosted cluster is no longer able to upgrade via kubeadm. ([#69878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69878), [@Klaven](https://github.com/Klaven))

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* Features:

  * Add Host field to TCPSocketAction ([#42902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42902), [@louyihua](https://github.com/louyihua))

	* Add the ability to lock on ConfigMaps to support HA for self hosted components ([#42666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42666), [@timothysc](https://github.com/timothysc))

  restrictions that already apply to CustomResourceDefinition.
  If rule evaluation uses more compute than the limit, the API server aborts the evaluation and the
  admission check that was being performed is aborted; the `failurePolicy` for the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy
  determines the outcome. ([#115747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115747), [@cici37](https://github.com/cici37))

- Structured Authentication Configuration now supports `DiscoveryURL`. If specified, `discoveryURL` overrides the URL used to fetch discovery information. This is for scenarios where the well-known and jwks endpoints are hosted at a different location than the issuer (such as locally in the cluster).
   ([#123527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123527), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))

# Changes

A complete changelog for the release notes is now hosted in a customizable format at [relnotes.k8s.io](https://relnotes.k8s.io). Check it out and please give us your feedback!

## What’s New (Major Themes)

### Cloud Provider Labels reach General Availability