### SIG CLI

- Added a sample-cli-plugin staging repository and cli-runtime staging repository to help showcase the new kubectl plugins mechanism. ([#67938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67938), [#67658](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67658), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

- Promoted CRI communication of the cgroup driver mechanism to beta. The `KubeletCgroupDriverFromCRI` feature gate is now in beta and enabled by default. This allows the kubelet to query the container runtime using CRI to determine the mechanism for cgroup management. If the container runtime doesn't support this, the kubelet falls back to using the configuration file (you can also use the deprecated...

### SIG CLI

SIG CLI's main focus this release was on refactoring `kubectl` internals to improve composability, readability and testability of `kubectl` commands. Those refactors will allow the team to extract a mechanism for extensibility of kubectl -- that is, plugins -- in the next releases.

### SIG Cluster Lifecycle

* Advanced auditing is the default auditing mechanism at `v1beta1`. The new version introduces the following changes:

* Add mechanism for Admission Webhooks to specify which version of AdmissionReview they support ([#74998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74998), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))
    * Add mechanism for CRD Conversion Webhooks to specify which version of ConversionReview they support

   ([#123001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123001), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

### SIG Cloud Provider

- Deprecate `--record` flag in `kubectl`. The `--record` flag is being replaced with the [mechanism](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-cli/859-kubectl-headers) which annotates HTTP requests with kubectl command details. ([#102873](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102873), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))...

#### Deployments
* [beta] Deployments uses a hashing collision avoidance mechanism that ensures new rollouts will not block on hashing collisions anymore. ([kubernetes/features#287](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/287))

#### PodDisruptionBudget

etes/kubernetes/pull/59666), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

* [GCP kube-up.sh] Variables that were part of kube-env that were only used for kubelet flags are no longer being set, and are being replaced by the more portable mechanism of the kubelet configuration file. The individual variables in the kube-env metadata entry were never meant to be a stable interface and this release note only applies if you are depending on them. ([#60020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60020),...