**How can I mitigate this prior to installing 1.5.5?**

1. Export existing PodSecurityPolicy objects:
  * `kubectl get podsecuritypolicies -o yaml > psp.yaml`
2. Review and delete any PodSecurityPolicy objects you do not want all pod-creating users to be able to use (NOTE: Privileged users that were making use of those policies will also lose access to those policies). For example:

* Fixed a panic in `kubectl run --attach ...` when the api server failed to create the runtime object (due to name conflict, PSP restriction, etc.) ([#61713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61713), [@mountkin](https://github.com/mountkin))

*   The PodSecurityPolicy annotation kubernetes.io/psp on pods is set only once on create. ([#55486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55486),[ @sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

#### **API & API server**

## External Dependencies

* Fix panic in ControllerManager on GCE when it has a problem with creating external loadbalancer healthcheck ([#52646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52646), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* PSP: add support for using `*` as a value in `allowedCapabilities` to allow to request any capabilities ([#51337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51337), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))

### Ephemeral Containers Graduate to Stable

## Changelog since v1.20.0

## What's New (Major Themes)

### Deprecation of PodSecurityPolicy

- kubeadm: treat non-fatal errors as warnings when doing reset ([#80862](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80862), [@drpaneas](https://github.com/drpaneas))
- kubeadm: prevent PSP blocking of upgrade image prepull by using a non-root user ([#77792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77792), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Kube-apiserver: the alpha PodSecurity feature can be enabled by passing `--feature-gates=PodSecurity=true`, and enables controlling allowed pods using namespace labels. See https://git.k8s.io/enhancements/keps/sig-auth/2579-psp-replacement for more details. ([#103099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103099), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Instrumentation, Release, Security and Testing]

* The --remove-extra-subjects and --remove-extra-permissions flags have been enabled for kubectl auth...