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

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...

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.

#### Other API changes:

  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

- 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))...

## 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]

* Update to go1.10.8 ([#73329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73329), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))
* Allow for watching objects larger than 1MB given etcd accepts objects of size up to 1.5MB ([#72053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72053), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

working on over the past releases such as server-side printing and its support in kubectl, as well as finishing [kubectl diff which is based on server-side dry-run feature](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/object-management/#how-to-create-objects). We’ve continued separating kubectl code to prepare for extraction out of main repository. Finally, thanks to the awesome support and feedback from community we’ve managed to promote the new [plugin mechanism to Beta](https:...