- The `PersistentVolumeLabel` admission controller will be removed in a future release, when the out-of-tree versions of the GCE and AWS cloud providers move to GA. The cloud providers are marked alpha in version 1.9.

### OpenStack

- The `openstack-heat` provider for `kube-up` is deprecated and will be removed

- Marked the feature gate `ExperimentalHostUserNamespaceDefaulting` as deprecated.

- Graduated `Job BackoffLimitPerIndex` feature to `beta`. ([#121356](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121356), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))
- Marked the `onPodConditions` field as optional in `Job`'s pod failure policy. ([#120204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120204), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

  enabled now removed in v1.26.
   ([#112386](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112386), [@Shubham82](https://github.com/Shubham82))
- `kubectl config view` now automatically redacts any secret fields marked with a `datapolicy` tag. ([#109189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109189), [@mpuckett159](https://github.com/mpuckett159))

### Documentation

components to be ready when running "kubeadm init" or "kubeadm join --control-plane". Previously, kubeadm only waited for the kube-apiserver. The "kubeadm join" workflow now includes a new experimental phase called "wait-control-plane". This phase was marked as non-experimental when WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents became GA. Accordingly, a "kubeadm init" phase "wait-control-plane" was also available once WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents became GA. These phases could be skipped if the user preferred not...

- The mount-utils mounter now provides an...