*   Best practice for version 1.9 and future versions is to explicitly set a cloud-provider. See [the documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/scratch/#cloud-providers)
*   The kubeadm `--skip-preflight-checks` flag is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

- The CSI driver-registrar external sidecar container v1.0.0-rc2 is known to take up to 1 minute to start in some cases. We expect this issue to be resolved in a future release of the sidecar container. For verification, please see the release notes of future releases of the external sidecar container. ([#76](https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/driver-registrar/issues/76))

The flag determines whether pods in a terminal state are displayed. It will be inert in 1.11 and removed in a future release. ([#60210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60210), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

* The ability to use the insecure HTTP port of kube-controller-manager and cloud-controller-manager has been deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. Use `--secure-port` and `--bind-address` instead. ([#59582](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59582),...

#### kubelet:

For more information, see [#53109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53109).

## Deprecations

### Kubernetes API Reference Documentation

- Marked the feature gate `ExperimentalHostUserNamespaceDefaulting` as deprecated.

- The `SecurityContextDeny` admission plugin is going deprecated and will be removed in future versions. ([#115879](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115879), [@mtardy](https://github.com/mtardy))

### API Change

  - Apply toleration for a new, future taint "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule" to the kubeadm CoreDNS / kube-dns managed manifests. Note that this taint is not yet applied to kubeadm control-plane nodes.
  - Please adapt your workloads to tolerate the same future taint preemptively.
    

- Kubeadm: remove the `IPv6DualStack` feature gate. The...