The StorageProtection feature, which prevents deletion of PVCs while Pods are still using them and of PVs while still bound to a PVC, is now generally available, and volume resizing, which lets you increase size of a volume after a Pod restarts is now beta, which means it is on by default.

New alpha features include:

- Implemented `event_handling_duration_seconds` metric, which is the time the scheduler takes to handle each kind of events. ([#125929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125929), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

If the type is a type parameter, the constant is converted into a non-constant
value of the type parameter.
</p>

<p>
An untyped constant has a <i>default type</i> which is the type to which the
constant is implicitly converted in contexts where a typed value is required,
for instance, in a <a href="#Short_variable_declarations">short variable declaration</a>

### API Machinery

- kube-apiserver: the `--runtime-config` flag now supports an `api/beta=false` value which disables all built-in REST API versions matching `v[0-9]+beta[0-9]+`. ([#84304](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84304), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* 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

* Fixed bug in rbd-nbd utility when nbd is used. ([#62168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62168), [@piontec](https://github.com/piontec))
* GCE: Updates GLBC version to 1.0.1 which includes a fix which prevents multi-cluster ingress objects from creating full load balancers. ([#62075](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62075), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- kube-apiserver: Promoted `AuthorizeWithSelectors` feature to beta, which includes field and label selector information from requests in webhook authorization calls. Promoted `AuthorizeNodeWithSelectors` feature to beta, which changes node authorizer behavior to limit requests from node API clients, so that each Node can only get / list / watch its own Node API object, and can also only get / list...

### API Change

- Give terminal phase correctly to all pods that will not be restarted. 

  In particular, assign Failed phase to pods which are deleted while pending. Also, assign a terminal 
  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  
  This fixes the issue for jobs using pod failure policy (with JobPodFailurePolicy and PodDisruptionConditions 

  - The label reconciliation happens as part of periodic status update which can be configured via flag `--node-status-update-frequency` ([#104613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104613), [@ravisantos...