### OpenStack

- The `openstack-heat` provider for `kube-up` is deprecated and will be removed
  in a future release. Refer to Issue [#49213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213)
  for background information.

### Scheduling

  - Opaque Integer Resources (OIRs) are deprecated and will be removed in

*   Improve resilience by annotating kube-dns addon with podAntiAffinity to prefer scheduling on different nodes. ([#52193](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52193),[ @StevenACoffman](https://github.com/StevenACoffman))

For detailed release notes on the three alpha features from SIG AWS, please refer to the following Changelogs:

- [aws-alb-ingress-controller v1.0.0](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-alb-ingress-controller/releases/tag/v1.0.0)

* Fix DeletingLoadBalancer event generation. ([#24833](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24833), [@a-robinson](https://github.com/a-robinson))
* GCE: Prefer preconfigured node tags for firewalls, if available ([#25148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25148), [@a-robinson](https://github.com/a-robinson))

- **Scheduling**
  - [alpha] Allows pods to require or prohibit (or prefer or prefer not) co-scheduling on the same node (or zone or other topology domain) as another set of pods. ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/node-selection/) ([kubernetes/features#51](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/51))

* Ensure status is not changed during an update of PV, PVC, HPA objects ([#24924](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24924), [@mqliang](https://github.com/mqliang))
* GCE: Prefer preconfigured node tags for firewalls, if available ([#25148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25148), [@a-robinson](https://github.com/a-robinson))

  * Plugins

      * Introduces the ability to extend kubectl by adding third-party plugins. Developer preview, please refer to the documentation for instructions about how to use it. ([#37499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37499), [@fabianofranz](https://github.com/fabianofranz))

- 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. ([#112914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112914), [@PiotrProkop](https://github.com/PiotrProkop))...

- The deprecated `SecurityContextDeny` admission plugin, which has been deprecated since `v1.27`, has been removed. It is recommended to use the Pod Security Admission plugin instead, which has been available since v1.25. Refer to the [Kubernetes documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/#securitycontextdeny) for more information.

      referenced by --config-map-namespace, --config-map. The config-map supports
      the following properties: "federations".
    * --federations flag is now deprecated. Prefer to set federations via the config-map.
      Federations can be configured by settings the "federations" field to the value currently
      set in the command line.
    * Example:
      ```yaml
      kind: ConfigMap