Added `validationActions` to `ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding`, enabling validation failures to be handled by any combination of the warn, audit and deny enforcement actions. ([#115973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115973), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

#### Storage

* [stable] Mount options

  * The ability to specify mount options for volumes is moved from beta to stable.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `PersistentVolume` spec is available to specify mount options. This field replaces an annotation.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `StorageClass` spec allows configuration of mount options for dynamically provisioned volumes.

- Fixed a regression in kube-proxy where it might refuse to start if given
  single-stack IPv6 configuration options on a node that has both IPv4 and
  IPv6 IPs. ([#121008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121008), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

# See the OWNERS docs at https://go.k8s.io/owners

options:
  # make root approval non-recursive
  no_parent_owners: true
approvers:
  - release-engineering-approvers
  - release-managers
  - AuraSinis # 1.24 Release Notes Lead
  - cici37 # 1.23 Release Notes Lead
  - csantanapr # 1.25 Release Notes Lead
  - harshanarayana # 1.27 Release Notes Lead
  - ramrodo # 1.26 Release Notes Lead
  - sanchita-07 # 1.28 Release Notes Lead

- Introduced a feature gate mechanism to `client-go`. Depending on the actual implementation, users can control features via environmental variables or command line options. ([#122555](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122555), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

- Added options for configuring `nf_conntrack_udp_timeout`, and `nf_conntrack_udp_timeout_stream` variables of netfilter conntrack subsystem. ([#120808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120808), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

- Added a `--topology-manager-policy-options` flag to the kubelet to support fine tuning the topology manager policies. The first policy option, `prefer-closest-numa-nodes`, allows these policies to favor sets of NUMA nodes with shorter distance between nodes when making admission decisions....