- The metric `storage_operation_errors_total` is not removed, but is marked deprecated, and the metric `storage_operation_status_count` is marked deprecated. In both cases the `storage_operation_duration_seconds` metric can be used to recover equivalent counts (using `status=fail-unknown` in the case of `storage_operations_errors_total`). ([#99045](https:...

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

  - 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.

- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.18.3 ([#110422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110422), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- EndpointSlices marked for deletion are now ignored during reconciliation. ([#110484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110484), [@aryan9600](https://github.com/aryan9600)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- The Pods and Pod controllers that are exempted from the PodSecurity admission process are now marked with the `pod-security.kubernetes.io/exempt: user/namespace/runtimeClass` annotation, based on what caused the exemption.
  
  The enforcement level that allowed or denied a Pod during PodSecurity admission is now marked by the `pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce-policy` annotation.
  

- Bug Fix: Kube-proxy dropped endpointSlice's local endpoints when upgrading from 1.20 to 1.22 ([#110245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110245), [@xh4n3](https://github.com/xh4n3)) [SIG Network]
- EndpointSlices marked for deletion are now ignored during reconciliation. ([#110482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110482), [@aryan9600](https://github.com/aryan9600)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Do not report terminated container metrics ([#110950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110950), [@yangjunmyfm192085](https://github.com/yangjunmyfm192085)) [SIG Node]
- EndpointSlices marked for deletion are now ignored during reconciliation. ([#109624](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109624), [@aryan9600](https://github.com/aryan9600))

- 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