- The `EndpointSliceTerminatingCondition` feature gate was graduated to GA. The gate is now locked and will be removed in v1.28. ([#113351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113351), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
- `DynamicKubeletConfig` feature gate has been removed from the API server.
  Dynamic kubelet reconfiguration now can't be used even when older nodes are still

- Added `UserNamespacesPodSecurityStandards` feature gate to enable user namespace support for Pod Security Standards.
  Enabling this feature will modify all Pod Security Standard rules to allow setting: `spec[.*].securityContext.[runAsNonRoot,runAsUser]`.
  This feature gate should only be enabled if all nodes in the cluster support the user namespace feature and have it enabled.

## Urgent Upgrade Notes 

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- 'The `IPv6DualStack` feature gate for external cloud providers was removed.
  (The feature became GA in 1.23 and the gate was removed for all other
  components several releases ago.) If you were still manually

- Marked the feature gate `ExperimentalHostUserNamespaceDefaulting` as deprecated.
  Enabling the feature gate already had no effect; the deprecation allows for removing the feature gate in a future release. ([#116723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116723), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node]

- Ensures `ExecProbeTimeout=false` kubelet feature gate with dockershim is taken into account, when the exec probe takes longer than `timeoutSeconds` configuration. ([#100200](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100200), [@jackfrancis](https://github.com/jackfrancis))

- Introduce a feature gate `DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProviders` which allows disabling the in-tree kubelet credential providers.
  

## Known Issues

### `TopologyAwareHints` feature falls back to default behavior

  //   in any namespaces.
  // (Beta) Using this field requires the AnyVolumeDataSource feature gate to be enabled.
  // (Alpha) Using the namespace field of dataSourceRef requires the CrossNamespaceVolumeDataSource feature gate to be enabled.
  // +optional
  optional TypedObjectReference dataSourceRef = 8;
}

- The feature gate was mentioned as `csiMigrationRBD` where it should have been `CSIMigrationRBD` to be in parity with other migration plugins. This release correct the same and keep it as `CSIMigrationRBD`.

* The alpha Accelerators feature gate is deprecated and will be removed in v1.11. Please use device plugins ([https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/368](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/368)) instead. They can be enabled using the DevicePlugins feature gate. ([#57384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57384), [@mindprince](https://github.com/mindprince))