- Use of the `--node-labels` flag to set labels under the `kubernetes.io/` and `k8s.io/` prefix will be subject to restriction by the `NodeRestriction` admission plugin in future releases. [See admission plugin documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/#noderestriction) for allowed labels. ([#68267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68267), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

* This change applies zone labels to vSphere Volumes automatically. The zone labels are visible on the PV: ([#72687](https://github.com/kubernetes/ku...

 - Newly provisioned PVs by EBS plugin will no longer use the deprecated "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" labels. It will use "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region" labels instead. ([#99130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99130), [@ayberk](https://github.com/ayberk)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Storage and Testing]

- Pods owned by a Job now uses the labels `batch.kubernetes.io/job-name` and `batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid`.
  The legacy labels `job-name` and `controller-uid` are still added for compatibility. ([#114930](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114930), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92))

- PersistentVolumeLabel admission plugin, responsible for labeling `PersistentVolumes` with topology labels, now does not overwrite existing labels on PVs that were dynamically provisioned. It trusts the  dynamic provisioning that it provided the correct labels to the `PersistentVolume`, saving one potentially expensive cloud API call. `PersistentVolumes` created manually by users are labelled by the admission plugin in the same...

- The `volume_zone` plugin will consider `beta` labels as `GA` labels during the scheduling
  process. Therefore, if the values of the labels are the same, PVs with `beta` labels
  can also be scheduled to nodes with `GA` labels. ([#118923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118923), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

* Reduce memory utilization of admission webhook metrics by removing resource related labels. ([#69895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69895), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

  - cAdvisor json endpoints have been deprecated since 1.15. ([#78504](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78504), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

`PodSecurity` replaces the deprecated `PodSecurityPolicy` admission controller.
`PodSecurity` is an admission controller that enforces Pod Security Standards on Pods in a Namespace based on specific namespace labels that set the enforcement level.
In 1.23, the `PodSecurity` feature gate is enabled by default.

### Container Runtime Interface (CRI) v1 is default

    * Add hugepages monitoring support
    * Fix incorrect CPU usage metrics with 4.7 kernel
    * Add tmpfs monitoring support
* Support for Huge pages in empty_dir volume plugin ([#50072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50072), [@squall0gd](https://github.com/squall0gd))
    * [Huge pages](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt) can now be used with empty dir volume plugin.