- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4954: Drop support for using gh: as a host (e.g. gh:kubernetes-sigs/kustomize). We were unable to find any usage of or basis for this and believe it may have been targeting a custom gitconfig shorthand syntax. ([#116598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116598), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG CLI]

* [stable] Support Attach and Detach operations for ReadWriteOnce (RWO) volumes that use iSCSI and Fibre Channel plugins.

* [stable] Expose storage usage metrics

  * The available capacity of a given Persistent Volume (PV) is available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API.

* [stable] Volume plugin metrics

* [GCE] Enable by default audit logging truncating backend. ([#68288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68288), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

* New alpha feature limits the number of processes running in a pod. Cluster administrators will be able to place limits by using the new kubelet command line parameter --pod-max-pids. Note that since this is a alpha feature they will need to enable the "SupportPodPidsLimit" feature. By default, we do not set any maximum limit, If an administrator wants to enable this, they should enable SupportPodPidsLimit=true in the --feature-gates= parameter to kubelet and specify the limit using the --pod-max-pids...

*   Kubelet now provides more specific events via FailedSync when unable to sync a pod. ([#53857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53857),[ @derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))
*   You can now disable AppArmor by setting the AppArmor profile to unconfined. ([#52395](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52395),[ @dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- Graduating `pending_pods`, `preemption_attempts_total`, `preemption_victims` and `schedule_attempts_total` metrics to stable. Also `e2e_scheduling_duration_seconds` is renamed to `scheduling_attempt_duration_seconds` and the latter is graduated to stable. (#105941, @rezakrimi) [SIG Instrumentation, Scheduling and Testing]

- `kubectl debug` is able to create ephemeral containers in pre-1.22 clusters with the `EphemeralContainers` feature enabled. Note that versions of kubectl prior to 1.22 are unable to create ephemeral containers in clusters version 1.22 and greater due to an API change. ([#103292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103292), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))...

### Volumes
* **[stable]** StorageClass API is promoted to v1 (storage.k8s.io/v1).
* **[stable]** Default storage classes are deployed during installation on Azure, AWS, GCE, OpenStack and vSphere.
* **[stable]** Added ability to populate environment variables from a configmap or secret.

  using ethtool to disable checksum offload on your primary network interface, you should
  now be able to stop doing that. ([#92035](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92035), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network and Node]

Besides the above new features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Cluster-Autoscaler is now stable and considered GA:

- Azure virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) allow you to create and manage identical load balanced VMs that automatically increase or decrease based on demand or a set schedule.