- The GCERegionalPersistentDisk feature gate (GA in 1.13) can no longer be disabled. The feature gate will be removed in v1.17. ([#77412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77412), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* vSphere cloud provider: Fix volume detach on node failure. ([#45569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45569), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))
* Job controller: Retry with rate-limiting if a Pod create/delete operation fails. ([#45870](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45870), [@tacy](https://github.com/tacy))

* ♻️ Refactor computing FastAPI People, include 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, based on comment date, not discussion date. PR [#11304](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/11304) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

- a new `EndpointSliceProxying` feature gate has been added to control the use of EndpointSlices in kube-proxy. The EndpointSlice feature gate that used to control this behavior no longer affects kube-proxy. This feature has been disabled by default. ([#86137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86137), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))...

- 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]

  //   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;
}

## Notable Features
### Stable
- Graduate ScheduleDaemonSetPods to GA. (feature gate will be removed in 1.18) ([#82795](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82795), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))
- Graduate TaintNodesByCondition to GA in 1.17. (feature gate will be removed in 1.18) ([#82703](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82703), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

- Volume dynamic provisioning scheduling has been moved to beta, which means that the DynamicProvisioningScheduling alpha feature gate has been removed but the VolumeScheduling beta feature gate is still required for this feature. ([#67432](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67432), [@lichuqiang](https://github.com/lichuqiang)) Courtesy of SIG Apps, SIG Architecture, SIG Storage, and SIG Testing

* Use of the alpha initializers feature now requires enabling the `Initializers` feature gate. This feature gate is automatically enabled if the `Initializers` admission plugin is enabled.([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436))

- 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