- Remove GA featuregate RemoveSelfLink ([#122468](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122468), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Remove GA featuregate about ExperimentalHostUserNamespaceDefaultingGate in 1.30 ([#122088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122088), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni)) [SIG Node]

  // checkpointing errors) will not result in a rollback to LastKnownGood, and may resolve across
  // Kubelet retries. Later errors (e.g. loading or validating a checkpointed config) will result in
  // a rollback to LastKnownGood. In the latter case, it is usually possible to resolve the error
  // by fixing the config assigned in Spec.ConfigSource.

- Resolve regression in metadata.managedFields handling in create/update/patch requests not using server-side apply ([#91794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91794), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4985: If you previously included .git in an AWS or Azure URL, we will no longer automatically remove that suffix. You may need to add an extra / to replace the .git for the URL to properly resolve.

* Remove redis-proxy.yaml sample, as the image is nowhere to be found. ([#44801](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44801), [@klausenbusk](https://github.com/klausenbusk))

- Resolve regression in metadata.managedFields handling in create/update/patch requests not using server-side apply ([#91791](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91791), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Remove GAed feature gate DelegateFSGroupToCSIDriver ([#117655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117655), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Storage]
- Remove GAed feature gate DevicePlugins ([#117656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117656), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Node]

* Fix remove the etcd member from the cluster during a kubeadm reset. ([#79326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79326), [@bradbeam](https://github.com/bradbeam))
* Remove KubeletPluginsWatcher feature gates ([#79310](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79310), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

- Kubeadm: fix the bug that 'kubeadm certs generate-csr' command does not remove duplicated SANs ([#107982](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107982), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster...

- Remove deprecated and not supported old cronjob controller. ([#106126](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106126), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps]
- Remove ignore error flag for drain, and set this feature as default ([#105571](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105571), [@yuzhiquan](https://github.com/yuzhiquan)) [SIG CLI]