[@rosti](https://github.com/rosti)) Courtesy of SIG Cluster Lifecycle, SIG Release, and SIG Testing

- 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))

- The following feature gates for volume expansion GA features have now been removed and must no longer be referenced in `--feature-gates` flags: `ExpandCSIVolumes`, `ExpandInUsePersistentVolumes`, `ExpandPersistentVolumes` ([#113942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113942), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))...

- The GA TokenRequest and TokenRequestProjection feature gates have been removed and are unconditionally enabled. Remove explicit use of those feature gates in CLI invocations. ([#97148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97148), [@wawa0210](https://github.com/wawa0210)) [SIG Node]

- Remove GAed feature gates OpenAPIV3 ([#121255](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121255), [@tukwila](https://github.com/tukwila)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]
- Remove GAed feature gates SeccompDefault ([#121246](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121246), [@tukwila](https://github.com/tukwila)) [SIG Node]

The `--feature-gates` flag now supports an `AllBeta=false` value which disables all beta feature gates. ([#84304](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84304), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Removed feature gates `ServiceLoadBalancerClass` and `ServiceLBNodePortControl`. These feature gates were enabled (and locked) since `v1.24`. ([#112577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112577), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- Promote StatefulSet minReadySeconds to GA. This means `--feature-gates=StatefulSetMinReadySeconds=true` are not needed on kube-apiserver and kube-controller-manager binaries and they'll be removed soon following policy at https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/deprecation-policy/#deprecation ([#110896](https:...

* fix smb mount issue ([#65751](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65751), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))

- The `SupportPodPidsLimit` and  `SupportNodePidsLimit` feature gates that are GA since v1.20 are unconditionally enabled, and can no longer be specified via the `--feature-gates` argument. ([#104163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104163), [@ialidzh...