- Replaced deprecated package `k8s.io/utils/pointer` with `k8s.io/utils/ptr` for the apiextensions-apiserver apiextensions. ([#132723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132723), [@PatrickLaabs](https://github.com/PatrickLaabs))

#### Generic API Server
* Move pkg/api/rest into genericapiserver ([#39948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39948), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* Move non-generic apiserver code out of the generic packages ([#38191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38191), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

  for actions against a CRI endpoint. The kubeadm deb/rpm packages will continue to install the `cri-tools`
  package for one more release, but in you must adapt your scripts to install `crictl` manually from
  https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases or a different location.
  
  The `kubeadm` package will stop depending on the `cri-tools` package in Kubernetes 1.32, which means that

PatchOptions respectively. Signatures of Delete and DeleteCollection methods now accept DeleteOptions by value instead of by reference. Generated clientsets with the previous interface have been added in new "deprecated" packages to allow incremental migration to the new APIs. The deprecated packages will be removed in the 1.21 release. A tool is available at http://sigs.k8s.io/clientgofix to rewrite method invocations to the new signatures.

- The following deprecated metrics are removed, please...

* kubeadm now sets peer URLs for the default etcd instance. Previously we left the defaults, which meant the peer URL was unsecured.
* Kubernetes now packages crictl in a cri-tools deb and rpm package. ([#64836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64836), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))

  
    A previous release built hyperkube using the debian-hyperkube-base@v1.0.0,
    which was updated to address a CVE in the CNI plugins.
    
    A side-effect of using this new image was that the networking packages
    (namely `iptables`) drifted from the versions used in the kube-proxy images.
  
    The following issues were filed on kube-proxy failures when using hyperkube:

- Made `apiextensions-apiserver` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114226), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))
- Made `kube-aggregator` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114227), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

## Changelog since v1.21.11

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes error handling in a kubectl method used in downstream packages. ([#108521](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108521), [@heybronson](https://github.com/heybronson)) [SIG CLI]

Modifications to cluster-internal resources installed by kubeadm will be overwritten when upgrading from v1.6 to v1.7. ([#47081](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47081), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

* kubeadm deb/rpm packages: cAdvisor doesn't listen on `0.0.0.0:4194` without authentication/authorization because of the possible information leakage. The cAdvisor API can still be accessed via `https://{node-ip}:10250/stats/`, though. ([kubernetes/release#356](https://g...

* The `DefaultFeatureGate` package variable now only exposes readonly feature gate methods. Methods for mutating feature gates have moved into a `MutableFeatureGate` interface and are accessible via the `DefaultMutableFeatureGate` package variable. Only top-level commands and options setup should access `DefaultMutableFeatureGate`. ([#71302](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71302),...