- When registering with a 1.17+ API server, a CustomResourceDefinition conversion webhook can now request that only `v1` ConversionReview requests be sent to them. Previously, conversion webhooks were required to support receiving `v1beta1` ConversionReview requests as well for compatibility with API servers <= 1.15....

- For the `InPlacePodVerticalScaling` feature, the API server will no longer set the resize status to `Proposed` upon receiving a resize request. ([#130574](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130574), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]

- The `AdmissionReview` API sent to and received from admission webhooks has been promoted to `admission.k8s.io/v1`. Webhooks can specify a preference for receiving `v1` AdmissionReview objects with `admissionReviewVersions: ["v1","v1beta1"]`, and must respond with an API object in the same `apiVersion` they are sent. When webhooks use `admission.k8s.io/v1`, the following additional validation is performed on...

- Allow ImageReview backend to return annotations to be added to the created pod. ([#64597](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64597), [@wteiken](https://github.com/wteiken))

- Kube-controller-manager: the dynamic resource controller steps in when a pod got created such that the scheduler ignores it (i.e. spec.nodeName is set) and then takes care of triggering delayed resource claim allocation and/or reserving a claim for the pod. ([#118209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118209), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Node and Testing]

- **[beta]** [Taints and tolerations](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/). This feature allows you to specify rules for "repelling" pods from nodes by default, which enables use cases like dedicated nodes and reserving nodes with special features for pods that need those features. We've also added a `NoExecute` taint type that evicts already-running pods, and an associated `tolerationSeconds` field to tolerations to delay the eviction for a specified amount of...

* When using Role-Based Access Control, the "admin", "edit", and "view" roles now have the expected permissions on NetworkPolicy resources, rather than reserving those permissions to only cluster-admin. ([#56650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56650), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

* Changed ext3/ext4 volume creation to not reserve any portion of the volume for the root user. When creating ext3/ext4 volume, mkfs defaults to reserving 5% of the volume for the super-user (root). This patch changes the mkfs to pass -m0 to disable this setting.
([#64102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64102), [@atombender](https://github.com/atombender))