- 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]

  //   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;
}

- Feature gate `CSIMigration` was locked to enabled. `CSIMigration` is GA now. The feature gate will be removed in `v1.27`. ([#110410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110410), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

* 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))

    String INDEX_ADMIN_ARRAY_FIELDS = "index.admin.array.fields";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. expires,created,timestamp,last_modified */
    String INDEX_ADMIN_DATE_FIELDS = "index.admin.date.fields";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g.  */
    String INDEX_ADMIN_INTEGER_FIELDS = "index.admin.integer.fields";

* ♻️ 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).

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