- Removed `WindowsHostProcessContainers` feature-gate. ([#117570](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117570), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Node and Windows]

- Added a config-mode flag in azure auth module to enable getting AAD token without spn: prefix in audience claim. When it's not specified, the default behavior doesn't change. ([#87630](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87630), [@weinong](https://github.com/weinong)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, CLI and Cloud Provider]

 - The `batch/v2alpha1.ScheduledJob` was removed. Use `batch/v1beta1.CronJob` instead.

### Auth

 - The RBAC v1alpha1 API group is deprecated in favor of RBAC v1.

 - The API server flag `--experimental-bootstrap-token-auth` is deprecated in favor of `--enable-bootstrap-token-auth`. The `--experimental-bootstrap-token-auth` flag will be removed in version 1.9.

### Autoscaling

    - [CLI Improvements](#cli-improvements)
  - [API Changes](#api-changes)
  - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-1)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)
    - [Apps](#apps)
    - [Auth](#auth)
    - [CLI](#cli)
    - [Cloud Provider](#cloud-provider)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle-1)
    - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation)
    - [Network](#network-1)
    - [Node](#node)

  - [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)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling-1)
    - [SIG AWS](#sig-aws)
    - [SIG Azure](#sig-azure-1)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli-1)
    - [SIG Cloud Provider](#sig-cloud-provider-1)

- Using exec auth plugins with kubectl no longer results in warnings about constructing many client instances from the same exec auth config. ([#97857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97857), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]
- When a CNI plugin returns dual-stack pod IPs, kubelet will now try to respect the

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- Added apiserver_envelope_encryption_kms_operations_latency_seconds metric to measure the KMSv2 grpc calls latency. ([#115649](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115649), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Testing]

  - [Introduction to 1.9.0](#introduction-to-190)
  - [Major themes](#major-themes)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)
    - [Apps](#apps)
    - [Auth](#auth)
    - [AWS](#aws)
    - [Azure](#azure)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle)
    - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation)
    - [Network](#network)
    - [Node](#node)
    - [OpenStack](#openstack)

    - [API-machinery](#api-machinery)
    - [Auth](#auth)
    - [Azure](#azure)
    - [CLI](#cli)
    - [Network](#network)
  - [Before Upgrading](#before-upgrading)
  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)
  - [Deprecations](#deprecations)
  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-13)
    - [Apps](#apps)
    - [AWS](#aws)
    - [Auth](#auth-1)
    - [CLI](#cli-1)