- Removed withdrawn feature `NetworkPolicyStatus`. ([#115843](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115843), [@rikatz](https://github.com/rikatz))

- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.19.0. ([#111679](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111679), [@puerco](https://github.com/puerco))
- Lock CSIMigrationAzureDisk feature gate to default. ([#110491](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110491), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- github.com/godbus/dbus/v5: [v5.0.4 → v5.0.6](https://github.com/godbus/dbus/v5/compare/v5.0.4...v5.0.6)
- github.com/golang/mock: [v1.5.0 → v1.6.0](https://github.com/golang/mock/compare/v1.5.0...v1.6.0)
- github.com/google/cadvisor: [v0.43.0 → v0.44.1](https://github.com/google/cadvisor/compare/v0.43.0...v0.44.1)

   ([#121983](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121983), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Client-go: Optimized leaders renewing leases by updating leader lock optimistically without getting the record from the API server first. Also, a new metric `leader_election_slowpath_total` was added to allow users to monitor how many leader elections are updated non-optimistically.

- Promoted `PodReplacementPolicy` to `beta`. ([#121491](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121491), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele))
- Promoted `ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange` to stable and lock to default. ([#120233](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120233), [@xuzhenglun](https://github.com/xuzhenglun))

- Introduce `ComponentSLIs` alpha feature-gate for component SLIs metrics endpoint. ([#112884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112884), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Lock ServerSideApply feature gate to true with the feature already being GA. ([#112748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112748), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Instrumentation and Testing]