- [Namespaced Brokers](https://svc-cat.io/docs/namespaced-broker-resources/), which enable operators to install a broker into a namespace instead of the cluster level, reached GA.
- The [Service Plan Defaults](https://svc-cat.io/docs/service-plan-defaults/) feature is in alpha and is under active development. This feature gives operators the ability to define defaults for when someone provisions a service.

- github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware: cfaf568 → f849b54
- github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway: v1.3.0 → v1.9.5
- github.com/heketi/heketi: v9.0.0+incompatible → c2e2a4a
- github.com/json-iterator/go: v1.1.7 → v1.1.8
- github.com/mailru/easyjson: 94de47d → v0.7.0
- github.com/mattn/go-isatty: v0.0.3 → v0.0.9
- github.com/mindprince/gonvml: fee913c → 9ebdce4
- github.com/mrunalp/fileutils: 4ee1cc9 → 7d4729f

* Switch JSON marshal/unmarshal to json-iterator library.  Performance should be close to previous with no generated code. ([#48287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48287), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- 'Priority and Fairness has introduced a new feature called _borrowing_ that allows an API priority level
  to borrow a number of seats from other priority level(s). As a cluster operator, you can enable borrowing
  for a certain priority level configuration object via the two newly introduced fields `lendablePercent`, and

  * More expressive node affinity syntax, and support for “soft” node affinity.
Node selectors (to constrain pods to schedule on a subset of nodes) now support
the operators {<code>In, NotIn, Exists, DoesNotExist, Gt, Lt</code>}  instead of just conjunction of exact match on node label values. In
addition, we’ve introduced a new “soft” kind of node selector that is just a

* The NamespaceExists and NamespaceAutoProvision admission controllers have been removed. ([#31250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31250), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))
    * All cluster operators should use NamespaceLifecycle.

- Introduce a churn operator to scheduler perf testing framework. ([#98900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98900), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

### OpenStack

on average) and rapid updates to pod configuration should take effect sooner.
  
  A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states.  Operators may use the metrics to track an excess of pods in the orphaned state that may not be completing. ([#113145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113145), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud...

The cri-tools project, which aims to provide consistent tooling for operators to debug and introspect their nodes in production independent of their chosen container runtime, graduated to GA.