- cloud.google.com/go/essentialcontacts: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/eventarc: v1.11.0
- cloud.google.com/go/filestore: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/functions: v1.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gaming: v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkebackup: v0.4.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkeconnect: v0.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkehub: v0.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkemulticloud: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gsuiteaddons: v1.5.0

- `kubectl create configmap` and `kubectl create secret` subcommands now support
  the `--append-hash` flag, which enables unique but deterministic naming for
  objects generated from files, for example with `--from-file`.

- `kubectl run` can set a service account name in the generated pod
  spec with the `--serviceaccount` flag.

### Network
- The official kube-proxy image (used by kubeadm, among other things) is now compatible with systems running iptables 1.8 in "nft" mode, and will autodetect which mode it should use. ([#82966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82966), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- cloud.google.com/go/essentialcontacts: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/eventarc: v1.11.0
- cloud.google.com/go/filestore: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/functions: v1.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gaming: v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkebackup: v0.4.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkeconnect: v0.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkehub: v0.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkemulticloud: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gsuiteaddons: v1.5.0

- Add use internal DNS name for 'hostname' of nodes.
- Add support for CSI spec v0.3.0 for both Cinder and Manilla
- Add 'cascade delete' support for Octavia load balancers to improve performance.
- Add improved load balancer naming.

### SIG-scheduling

SIG Scheduling development efforts have been primarily focused on improving performance and reliability of the scheduler.

* kubectl cp now safely allows unpacking of symlinks that may point outside the destination directory ([#82384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82384), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
* fix azure disk naming matching issue due to case sensitive comparison ([#81720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81720), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

feature gate `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` to GA and locked it to `true` by default. The kubelet related ConfigMap and RBAC rules are now locked to have a simplified naming `*kubelet-config` instead of the legacy naming `*kubelet-config-x.yy`, where `x.yy` was the version of the control plane. If you have previously used the old naming format with `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap=false`, you must manually copy the config map from `kube-system/kubelet-config-x.yy` to `kube-system/kubelet-config` before...

graduated the `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` feature gate to Beta and enabled the feature by default. This implies that 1) for new clusters kubeadm will start using the `kube-system/kubelet-config` naming scheme for the kubelet ConfigMap and RBAC rules, instead of the legacy `kubelet-config-x.yy` naming. 2) during upgrade, kubeadm will only write the new scheme ConfigMap and RBAC objects. To disable the feature you can pass `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap: false` in the kubeadm config for new clusters....

  -  Remove already deprecated options `resyncperiod` and `upstream` in the Kubernetes plugin.
  -  Includes Prometheus metrics name changes (to bring them in line with standard Prometheus metrics naming convention). They will be backward incompatible with existing reporting formulas that use the old metrics' names.
  -  The federation plugin (allows for v1 Kubernetes federation) has been removed.

- Port mapping now allows the same `containerPort` of different containers to different `hostPort` without naming the mapping explicitly. ([#94494](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94494), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev))