- Kubernetes components that accepted X.509 client certificate authentication now read the user UID from a certificate subject name RDN with object ID `1.3.6.1.4.1.57683.2`. An RDN with this object ID had to contain a string value and appear no more than once in the certificate subject. Reading the user UID from this RDN could be disabled by setting the beta feature gate `AllowParsingUserUIDFromCertAuth` to `false`(until the feature gate graduated to...

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126694), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

- The following roles have had `Watch` added to them (prefixed with `system:controller:`):
  
  - `cronjob-controller`
  - `endpoint-controller`
  - `endpointslice-controller`
  - `endpointslicemirroring-controller`

- Kube-apiserver: requests to node, Service, and Pod `/proxy` subresources with no additional URL path now only automatically redirect GET and HEAD requests. ([#95128](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95128), [@Riaankl](https://github.com/Riaankl))

- kube-scheduler implemented scheduling hints for the `NodeUnschedulable` plugin. The scheduling hints allowed the scheduler to only retry scheduling a Pod that had been previously rejected by the `NodeSchedulable` plugin if a new Node or a Node update had set `.spec.unschedulable` to false.
   ([#122334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122334), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126695), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

* scheduler: Fix issue were a new pod with affinity gets stuck at `creating` because the node had been deleted but the pod still exists. ([#56835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56835), [@wenlxie](https://github.com/wenlxie))

reclaim policy has been deprecated. Users should use dynamic provisioning instead. ([#59063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59063), [@ayushpateria](https://github.com/ayushpateria))

* kube-apiserver flag --tls-ca-file has had no effect for some time.  It is now deprecated and slated for removal in 1.11.  If you are specifying this flag, you must remove it from your launch config before upgrading to 1.11. ([#58968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58968), [@...

- Fixed a startup probe race condition that caused main containers to remain stuck in "Initializing" state when sidecar containers with startup probes had failed initially but succeeded on restart in pods with `restartPolicy=Never`. ([#133072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133072), [@AadiDev005](https://github.com/AadiDev005)) [SIG Node and Testing]

	In Namespaces that previously did not have the "DefaultDeny" annotation, you should delete any existing NetworkPolicy objects. These had no effect in the v1beta1 API, but with v1 semantics they might cause some traffic to be unintentionally blocked.


### Storage