- Dynamic Resource Allocator (DRA): Enhanced validation for the ResourceClaimParametersReference and ResourceClassParametersReference with the following rules:
  
  1. `apiGroup`: If set, it must be a valid DNS subdomain (e.g. 'example.com').

 ([#73001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73001), [@shivnagarajan](https://github.com/shivnagarajan))

SIG-OpenStack continued to build out testing, with eleven acceptance tests covering a wide-range of scenarios and use-cases. During the 1.11 cycle our reporting back to test-grid has qualified the OpenStack cloud provider as a gating job for the Kubernetes release.

New features include improved integration between the Keystone service and Kubernetes RBAC, and a number of stability and compatibility improvements across the entire provider code-base.

### SIG Scheduling

port of kube-controller-manager and cloud-controller-manager has been deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. Use `--secure-port` and `--bind-address` instead. ([#59582](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59582), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* The ability to use the insecure flags `--insecure-bind-address`, `--insecure-port` in the apiserver has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use `--secure-port` and `--bind-address` instead. ([#...

- Rename metrics `etcd_object_counts` to `apiserver_storage_object_counts` and mark it as stable. The original `etcd_object_counts` metrics name is marked as "Deprecated" and will be removed in the future. ([#99785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99785), [@erain](https://github.com/erain)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Testing]

- Aggregated discovery supports both v2beta1 and v2 types and feature is promoted to GA ([#122882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122882), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

[SIG Apps]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-apps

### Windows

- `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm init phase` now have a `--image-repository` flag, improving support for environments with limited access to official kubernetes repository.
- The DynamicKubeletConfig and SelfHosting functionality was moved outside of `kubeadm init` and feature gates and is now exposed under `kubeadm alpha`.

ReplicaSet, and readyReplicas has the semantics that replicas did prior to 1.7 ([#46669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46669), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns)).

* ControllerRevision type has been added for StatefulSet and DaemonSet history. Clients should not depend on the stability of this type as it may change, as necessary, in future releases to support StatefulSet and DaemonSet update and rollback. We enable this type as we do with beta features, because StatefulSet...