- Scheduler alpha metrics binding_duration_seconds and scheduling_algorithm_preemption_evaluation_seconds are deprecated, Both of those metrics are now covered as part of framework_extension_point_duration_seconds, the former as a PostFilter the latter and a Bind plugin. The plan is to remove both in 1.21 ([#95001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95001), [@arghya88](https://github.com/arghya88))...

- The PodDisruptionBudget `spec.unhealthyPodEvictionPolicy` field has graduated to beta and is enabled by default. On servers with the feature enabled, this field may be set to `AlwaysAllow` to always allow unhealthy pods covered by the PodDisruptionBudget to be evicted. ([#115363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115363), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG Apps, Auth and Node]

- The PodDisruptionBudget `spec.unhealthyPodEvictionPolicy` field has graduated to GA. This field may be set to `AlwaysAllow` to always allow unhealthy pods covered by the PodDisruptionBudget to be evicted. ([#123428](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123428), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Node and Testing]

<pre>
*Point(p)        // same as *(Point(p))
(*Point)(p)      // p is converted to *Point
&lt;-chan int(c)    // same as &lt;-(chan int(c))
(&lt;-chan int)(c)  // c is converted to &lt;-chan int
func()(x)        // function signature func() x
(func())(x)      // x is converted to func()
(func() int)(x)  // x is converted to func() int
func() int(x)    // x is converted to func() int (unambiguous)
</pre>

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does not support protobuf encoding, if you roll back to 1.5 after upgrading to
protobuf you will be forced to restore from backup, and you will lose any changes
since you converted to protobuf.  After conversion to protobuf, you should
validate the correct operation of your cluster thoroughly before returning it
to normal operation.

- Fixed a race condition serving `OpenAPI` content ([#117705](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117705), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))
- Fixed a regression in `1.27.0` that resulted in `missing metadata in converted object` errors when modifying objects for multi-version custom resource definitions with a conversion strategy of `None`. ([#117301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117301), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))

* Volume expansion is now considered Beta. ([#64288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64288),...

- Clients may now request that API objects are converted to the `v1.Table` and `v1.PartialObjectMetadata` forms for generic access to objects. ([#77448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77448), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

  passed a file which contains RBAC roles, rolebindings, clusterroles, or
  clusterrolebindings, this command computes covers and adds the missing rules.
  The logic required to properly apply RBAC permissions is more complicated
  than a JSON merge because you have to compute logical covers operations between
  rule sets. This means that we cannot use `kubectl apply` to update RBAC roles

- Existing PVs are converted to use volume topology if migration is enabled. ([#83394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83394), [@bertinatto](https://github.com/bertinatto))