This allows to set `Immutable` field in Secrets or ConfigMap object to mark their contents as immutable. ([#97615](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97615), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Apps, Architecture, Node and Testing]

### Feature

* GCE: Service object now supports "Network Tiers" as an Alpha feature via...

For more information, see [#53040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53040).

* Object quotas are not consistently charged or updated. Specifically, the object count quota does not reliably account for uninitialized objects. Some quotas are charged only when an object is initialized. Others are charged when an object is created, whether it is initialized or not. We plan to fix this issue in a future release.

l/59298), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* The `meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1` objects for retrieving tabular responses from the server (`Table`) or fetching just the `ObjectMeta` for an object (as `PartialObjectMetadata`) are now beta as part of `meta.k8s.io/v1beta1` and configurations must be changed to use the new API.  Clients may request alternate representations of normal Kubernetes objects by passing an `Accept` header like `application/json;as=Table;g=meta.k8s.io;v=v1beta1` or...

- LimitRange and Endpoints resources can be created via an update API call if the object does not already exist. When this occurs, an authorization check is now made to ensure the user making the API call is authorized to create the object. In previous releases, only an update authorization check was performed. ([#65150](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65150), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))...

## Changelog since v1.27.0

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a regression in 1.27.0 that resulted in "missing metadata in converted object" errors when modifying objects for multi-version custom resource definitions with a conversion strategy of `None`. ([#117305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117305), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc)) [SIG API Machinery]

- The CSINodeInfo feature gate is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 CSINode object is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. ([#83474](https://g...

* kubelets are no longer allowed to delete their own Node API object. Prior to 1.11, in rare circumstances related to cloudprovider node ID changes, kubelets would attempt to delete/recreate their Node object at startup. If a legacy kubelet encounters this situation, a cluster admin can remove the Node object: `kubectl delete node/<nodeName>` ([#62818](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62818), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))...

#### Other API changes:

* kubelets are no longer allowed to delete their own Node API object. Prior to 1.11, in rare circumstances related to cloudprovider node ID changes, kubelets would attempt to delete/recreate their Node object at startup. Kubelets older than 1.11 are not supported running against a v1.13+ API server. If an unsupported legacy kubelet encounters this situation, a cluster admin can remove the Node object: ([#71021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71021), [@liggitt](htt...