- New `service.kubernetes.io/topology-mode` annotation has been introduced as a replacement for the `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` annotation.
  - `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` annotation has been deprecated.

- The feature gate `CSIStorageCapacity` have been removed and must no longer be referenced in `--feature-gates` flags. ([#118018](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118018), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

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* [GA] The RBAC API group has been promoted from v1beta1 to v1. No API changes were introduced.

* [beta] Advanced auditing has been promoted from alpha to beta. The webhook and logging policy formats have changed since alpha, and may require modification.

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- Kube-apiserver: the `metadata.selfLink` field can no longer be populated by kube-apiserver; it was deprecated in 1.16 and has not been populated by default since 1.20+. ([#107527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107527), [@wojtek-t](https:...

 - The intree volume plugin quobyte support has been completely removed from Kubernetes. ([#111619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111619), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

   ([#120246](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120246), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

  you want to set the equivalent of any of the `--iptables-xxx` options.)
  
  As this code is still very new, it has not been heavily optimized yet;
  while it is expected to _eventually_ have better performance than the
  iptables backend, very little performance testing has been done so far. ([#121046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121046), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- Kubeadm: removed the `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` feature gate. The feature has been GA and locked to enabled since `v1.25`. ([#113448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113448), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))...