### Feature

- Add cloud-controller-manager feature gate CloudControllerManagerWatchBasedRoutesReconciliation ([#131220](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131220), [@lukasmetzner](https://github.com/lukasmetzner)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

      - [kube-apiserver:](#kube-apiserver-2)
      - [kube-scheduler:](#kube-scheduler-1)
      - [kube-proxy:](#kube-proxy-1)
      - [Features graduated to beta:](#features-graduated-to-beta)
      - [Features graduated to GA:](#features-graduated-to-ga)
    - [Feature](#feature-5)
      - [Metrics:](#metrics)
    - [Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)](#other-bug-cleanup-or-flake-1)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-19)

- Graduated the `WinDSR` feature in the kube-proxy to beta. The `WinDSR` feature gate is now enabled by default. ([#130876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130876), [@rzlink](https://github.com/rzlink)) [SIG Windows]
- Graduated the asynchronous preemption feature in the scheduler to beta. 

- The following features are now GA, and the associated feature gates are deprecated and will be removed in a future release:
  - CSIPersistentVolume
  - GCERegionalPersistentDisk
  - KubeletPluginsWatcher
  - VolumeScheduling
- kubeadm

### SIG-instrumentation

No feature work, but a large refactoring of metrics-server as well as a number of bug fixes.

### SIG-node

SIG-node graduated the PodShareProcessNamespace feature from alpha to beta.  This feature allows a pod spec to request that all containers in a pod share a common process namespaces.

Two alpha features were also added in this release.

### Feature

- Feature gates for PortForward (kubectl port-forward) over WebSockets are now enabled by default (Beta).
  - Server-side feature gate: PortForwardWebsocket
  - Client-side (kubectl) feature gate: PORT_FORWARD_WEBSOCKETS environment variable

- Add a StorageVersionAPI feature gate that makes API server update storageversions before serving certain write requests. 
  This feature allows the storage migrator to manage storage migration for built-in resources. 

- The WatchBookmark feature is promoted to GA. With WatchBookmark feature, clients are able to request watch events with BOOKMARK type. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#watch-bookmarks for more details. ([#83195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83195), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
- Promote NodeLease feature to GA.

## Known Issues

### `TopologyAwareHints` feature falls back to default behavior

## **Notable Features**

Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo. Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community)