- Remove alpha `CSIMigrationXXComplete` flag and add alpha `InTreePluginXXUnregister` flag. Deprecate `CSIMigrationvSphereComplete` flag and it will be removed in v1.22. ([#98243](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98243), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

* Alpha annotation for PersistentVolume node affinity has been removed.  Update your PersistentVolumes to use the beta PersistentVolume.nodeAffinity field before upgrading to this release. ([#61816](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61816), [@wackxu
](https://github.com/wackxu))

#### Removed Deprecations

- Kubeadm: perform additional dockershim cleanup. Treat all container runtimes as remote by using the flag "--container-runtime=remote", given dockershim was removed in 1.24 and given kubeadm 1.25 supports a kubelet version of 1.24 and 1.25. The flag "--network-plugin" will no longer be used for new clusters. Stop cleaning up the following dockershim related directories on...

- Removed generally available feature gate `LegacyServiceAccountTokenCleanUp`. ([#126839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126839), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Auth]
- Removed generally available feature gate `MinDomainsInPodTopologySpread`. ([#126863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126863), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Removed GA ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange feature gate. ([#124738](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124738), [@xuzhenglun](https://github.com/xuzhenglun))

- Kubeadm: make sure that `kubeadm...

- Promote InPlacePodVerticalScaling to GA. ([#134949](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134949), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Scheduling]
- Promote Relaxed validation for Services names to beta (enabled by default)
  
  Promote `RelaxedServiceNameValidation` feature to beta (enabled by default)

- Removed general available feature-gate `AppArmor`. ([#129375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129375), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Auth and Node]
- Removed generally available feature gate `KubeProxyDrainingTerminatingNodes`. ([#129692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129692), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu)) [SIG Network]

- kube-controller-manager
  - The deprecated `--insecure-experimental-approve-all-kubelet-csrs-for-group` flag has been removed.
- kubelet

- Kubeadm: remove the usage of the --container-runtime=remote flag for the kubelet during kubeadm init/join/upgrade. The flag value "remote" has been the only possible value since dockershim was removed from the kubelet. ([#112...