### Structured Logging in Kubelet

Kubelet has adopted structured logging, thanks to community effort in accomplishing this within the release timeline. Structured logging in the project remains an ongoing effort -- for folks interested in participating, [keep an eye / chime in to the mailing list discussion](https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-dev/c/y4WIw-ntUR8).

### Storage Capacity Tracking

#### **Kube-Proxy**

*   Added iptables rules to allow Pod traffic even when default iptables policy is to reject. ([#52569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52569),[ @tmjd](https://github.com/tmjd))

### Other notable changes

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

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.

  
  This release adds a feature to hash the `KeyID` values in the logs. The `KeyID` values are sensitive information that should not be exposed in plain text in the logs. By hashing the `KeyID` values, we can protect the confidentiality of the data while still being able to log the necessary information. ([#118988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118988), [@nilekhc](https://github.com/nilekhc)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Testing]

### Other notable changes

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- Kubeadm: on kubeconfig certificate renewal, keep the embedded CA in sync with the one on disk ([#88052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88052), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- Kubeadm: reject a node joining the cluster if a node with the same name already exists ([#81056](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81056), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## API Changes
- CustomResourceDefinitions now validate documented API semantics of `x-kubernetes-list-type` and `x-kubernetes-map-type` atomic to reject non-atomic sub-types. ([#84722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84722), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* kubelet: Fix bug where `runAsUser: MustRunAsNonRoot` strategy didn't reject a pod with a non-numeric `USER`. ([#56708](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56708), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))
* Add iptables rules to allow Pod traffic even when default iptables policy is to reject. ([#52569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52569), [@tmjd](https://github.com/tmjd))

Version 2 of the HorizontalPodAutoscaler API graduates to stable in the 1.23 release. The HorizontalPodAutoscaler `autoscaling/v2beta2` API is deprecated in favor of the new `autoscaling/v2` API, which the Kubernetes project recommends for all use cases.

This release does *not* deprecate the v1 HorizontalPodAutoscaler API.

### Generic Ephemeral Volume feature graduates to GA