- Promoted `CustomResourceFieldSelectors` to stable; the feature was enabled by default. The `--feature-gates=CustomResourceFieldSelectors=true` flag was no longer needed on kube-apiserver binaries and would be removed in a future release. ([#127673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127673), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

### 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]

- The `VolumeSnapshotDataSource` feature gate that is GA since v1.20 is unconditionally enabled, and can no longer be specified via the `--feature-gates` argument. ([#101531](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101531), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Storage]

- 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. 

* PodReadinessGate feature is now GA. The feature gate will not allow disabling it. ([#74434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74434), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- a new `EndpointSliceProxying` feature gate has been added to control the use of EndpointSlices in kube-proxy. The EndpointSlice feature gate that used to control this behavior no longer affects kube-proxy. This feature has been disabled by default. ([#86137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86137), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) 

CoreDNS is now the default cluster DNS passing all of the scale/resource usage tests
Node-local DNS cache feature is available in Alpha. This feature deploys a lightweight DNS caching Daemonset that avoids the conntrack and converts queries from UDP to more reliable TCP.
PodReady++ feature now has `kubectl` CLI support.

- The `AdvancedAuditing` feature gate that graduated to GA in `v1.12` (and was unconditionally
  enabled) has been removed. ([#118763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118763), [@Shubham82](https://github.com/Shubham82))

### **Storage**

*   [alpha] The LocalPersistentVolumes alpha feature now also requires the VolumeScheduling alpha feature.  This is a breaking change, and the following changes are required:
    *   The VolumeScheduling feature gate must also be enabled on kube-scheduler and kube-controller-manager components.

- The `CSIMigrationAzureFile` feature gate (for the feature which graduated to GA in v1.26) is now unconditionally enabled and will be removed in v1.28. ([#114953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114953), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))