*   The admission webhook configurations API, part of the admissionregistration API, is now at v1beta1. Delete any existing webhook configurations before you upgrade, and update your configuration files...

- **Admission webhooks:** Admission webhooks are in widespread use as a Kubernetes extensibility mechanism and have been available in beta since the 1.9 release. The 1.16 release marks the graduation of admission webhooks to general availability (GA).

### Beta

  - 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...

those `$ref` fields. ([#58438](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58438), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

* Webhooks now do not skip cluster-scoped resources. Before upgrading your Kubernetes clusters, double check whether you have configured webhooks for cluster-scoped objects (e.g., nodes, persistentVolume), as these webhooks will start to take effect. Delete/modify the configs if that's not desirable. ([#58185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58185),...

possibility of dry-run requests overwhelming admission webhooks that rely on side effects and a reconciliation mechanism, a new field is being added to `admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.ValidatingWebhookConfiguration` and `admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.MutatingWebhookConfiguration` so that webhooks can explicitly register as having dry-run support. If a dry-run request is made on a resource that triggers a non dry-run supporting webhook, the request will be completely rejected, with "400:...

* Add mechanism for Admission Webhooks to specify which version of AdmissionReview they support ([#74998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74998), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))
    * Add mechanism for CRD Conversion Webhooks to specify which version of ConversionReview they support

#tokenreview-v1-authentication-k8s-io) for the new tokens for improved scoping. Under audit logging, the new alpha-level "dynamic audit configuration" adds support for [dynamically registering webhooks to receive a stream of audit events](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/audit/#webhook-backend). Finally, we've enhanced secrets protection by graduating [etcd encryption](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/encrypt-data/) out of experimental.

### SIG...

Kubernetes 1.19 / go 1.15. Serving certificates used by admission webhooks, custom resource conversion webhooks, and aggregated API servers must now include valid Subject Alternative Names. If you are running Kubernetes 1.22 with `GODEBUG=x509ignoreCN=0` set, check the `apiserver_kube_aggregator_x509_missing_san_total` and `apiserver_webhooks_x509_missing_san_total` metrics for non-zero values to see if the API server is connecting to webhooks or aggregated API servers using certificates that will be considered...

- Kube-apiserver: Authorization webhooks now report the following metrics:
  - apiserver_authorization_webhook_evaluations_total
  - apiserver_authorization_webhook_duration_seconds