## Deprecations

This section provides an overview of deprecated API versions, options, flags, and arguments. Deprecated means that we intend to remove the capability from a future release. After removal, the capability will no longer work. The sections are organized by SIGs.

### **API Machinery**

## What's New (Major Themes)

### Deprecation of PodSecurityPolicy

* kube-apiserver flag --tls-ca-file has had no effect for some time.  It is now deprecated and slated for removal in 1.11.  If you are specifying this flag, you must remove it from your launch config before upgrading to 1.11. ([#58968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58968), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

      - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle)
      - [Network](#network)
      - [Scheduling](#scheduling)
      - [Storage](#storage)
      - [Windows](#windows)
  - [Deprecations and Removals](#deprecations-and-removals)
  - [Metrics Changes](#metrics-changes)
    - [Added metrics](#added-metrics)
    - [Deprecated/changed metrics](#deprecatedchanged-metrics)
  - [Notable Features](#notable-features)

    - [SIG-storage](#sig-storage)
    - [SIG-vmware](#sig-vmware)
    - [SIG-windows](#sig-windows)
  - [Action Required](#action-required-1)
  - [Deprecations and removals](#deprecations-and-removals)
  - [New Features](#new-features)
  - [API Changes](#api-changes)
  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-10)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery-1)
    - [SIG Apps](#sig-apps)

* Resolves forbidden error when accessing replicasets and daemonsets via the apps API group ([#54309](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54309), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kubelet: prevent removal of default labels from Node API objects on startup ([#54073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54073), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

 - Fix: azure disk dangling attach issue which would cause API throttling ([#90749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90749), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
 - Fix: support removal of nodes backed by deleted non VMSS instances on Azure ([#91184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91184), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Fixes bug in DaemonSetController causing it to stop processing some DaemonSets for 5 minutes after node removal. ([#76060](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76060), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

- Audit events for API requests to deprecated API versions now include a `"k8s.io/deprecated": "true"` audit annotation. If a target removal release is identified, the audit event includes a `"k8s.io/removal-release": "<majorVersion>.<minorVersion>"` audit annotation as well. ([#92842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92842), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]...

- Audit events for API requests to deprecated API versions now include a `"k8s.io/deprecated": "true"` audit annotation. If a target removal release is identified, the audit event includes a `"k8s.io/removal-release": "<majorVersion>.<minorVersion>"` audit annotation as well. ([#92842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92842), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]...