* RBAC objects are now stored in etcd in v1 format. After completing an upgrade to 1.9, RBAC objects (Roles, RoleBindings, ClusterRoles, ClusterRoleBindings) should be migrated...

* The `spec.SecurityContext.Sysctls` field is now dropped during creation of `Pod` objects unless the `Sysctls` feature gate is enabled. ([#72752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72752), [@rajathagasthya](https://github.com/rajathagasthya))
    * The `spec.AllowedUnsafeSysctls` and `spec.ForbiddenSysctls` fields are now dropped during creation of `PodSecurityPolicy` objects unless the `Sysctls` feature gate is enabled.

## Changelog since v1.11.6

### Other notable changes

* Allow for watching objects larger than 1MB given etcd accepts objects of size up to 1.5MB ([#72053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72053), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

l/59298), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* The `meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1` objects for retrieving tabular responses from the server (`Table`) or fetching just the `ObjectMeta` for an object (as `PartialObjectMetadata`) are now beta as part of `meta.k8s.io/v1beta1` and configurations must be changed to use the new API.  Clients may request alternate representations of normal Kubernetes objects by passing an `Accept` header like `application/json;as=Table;g=meta.k8s.io;v=v1beta1` or...

- Fixed a performance issue applying json patches to deeply nested objects ([#93812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93812), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

#### Other API changes:

  `delete`, `describe`, `edit`, `get`, `label,` and `set`. `--include-uninitialized=true` makes
  kubectl commands apply to uninitialized objects, which by default are ignored
  if the names of the objects are not provided. `--all` also makes kubectl
  commands apply to uninitialized objects. See the
  [initializer documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/extensible-admission-controllers/) for more details.

  * Marking a StorageClass as default makes it so that even a PersistentVolumeClaim without a StorageClass specified will trigger dynamic provisioning (instead of binding to an existing pool of PVs).

- Fix a race condition in transforming informer happening when objects were accessed during Resync operation ([#124344](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124344),...

* The `NodeRestriction` admission plugin limits the `Node` and `Pod` objects a kubelet can modify. In order to be limited by this admission plugin, kubelets must use credentials in the `system:nodes` group, with a username in the form `system:node:<nodeName>`. Such kubelets will only be allowed to modify their own `Node` API object, and only modify `Pod` API objects that are bound to their node. ([#45929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45929), [@ligg...