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on average) and rapid updates to pod configuration should take effect sooner.
  
  A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states.  Operators may use the metrics to track an excess of pods in the orphaned state that may not be completing. ([#113145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113145), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud...

- Introduce a churn operator to scheduler perf testing framework. ([#98900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98900), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

- [Namespaced Brokers](https://svc-cat.io/docs/namespaced-broker-resources/), which enable operators to install a broker into a namespace instead of the cluster level, reached GA.
- The [Service Plan Defaults](https://svc-cat.io/docs/service-plan-defaults/) feature is in alpha and is under active development. This feature gives operators the ability to define defaults for when someone provisions a service.

The cri-tools project, which aims to provide consistent tooling for operators to debug and introspect their nodes in production independent of their chosen container runtime, graduated to GA.

- We no longer allow the cluster operator to delete any suggested priority & fairness bootstrap configuration object. If a cluster operator removes a suggested configuration, it will be restored by the apiserver. ([#102067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102067), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

  2. Adding the feature flag to the kubelet config:
     featureGates:
     `CSIMigrationRBD`: true

  As a Kubernetes cluster operator that administers storage, here are the prerequisites that you must complete before you attempt migration to the RBD CSI driver:

* The NamespaceExists and NamespaceAutoProvision admission controllers have been removed. ([#31250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31250), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))
    * All cluster operators should use NamespaceLifecycle.

- Kube-apiserver: jsonpath expressions with consecutive recursive descent operators are no longer evaluated for custom resource printer columns ([#93408](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93408), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kube-apiserver: jsonpath expressions with consecutive recursive descent operators are no longer evaluated for custom resource printer columns ([#93408](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93408), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith)) [SIG API Machinery]