- Removed Azure disk in-tree storage plugin ([#116301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116301), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Removed flag `master-service-namespace` from `api-server` arguments ([#114446](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114446), [@lengrongfu](https://github.com/lengrongfu))
- Removed the following deprecated metrics:

* Add a way to pass extra arguments to etcd. ([#63961](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63961), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- The `CSINodeInfo` feature gate that is GA since v1.17 is unconditionally enabled, and can no longer be specified via the `--feature-gates` argument. ([#96561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96561), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

- Added a new command line argument `--interactive` to kubectl. The new command line argument lets a user confirm deletion requests per resource interactively. ([#114530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114530), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

- Adds a new Status subresource in Network Policy objects ([#107963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107963), [@rikatz](https://github.com/rikatz))

- The `StartupProbe` feature gate that is GA since v1.20 is unconditionally enabled, and can no longer be specified via the `--feature-gates` argument. ([#104168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104168), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov))...

- If the parent directory of the file specified in the `--audit-log-path` argument does not exist, Kubernetes now creates it. ([#111227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111227), [@vpnachev](https://github.com/vpnachev)) [SIG Auth]

- If the parent directory of the file specified in the `--audit-log-path` argument does not exist, Kubernetes now creates it. ([#110813](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110813), [@vpnachev](https://github.com/vpnachev)) [SIG Auth]

  
  At this point it should be functionally mostly identical to the iptables
  mode, except that it does not (and will not) support Service NodePorts on
  127.0.0.1. (Also note that there are currently no command-line arguments
  for the nftables-specific config; you will need to use a config file if
  you want to set the equivalent of any of the `--iptables-xxx` options.)
  
  As this code is still very new, it has not been heavily optimized yet;

  were unnecessarily using `--node-ip` with an external cloud provider in 1.23,
  and then running into problems with 1.24, could not fix the problem by just
  removing the unnecessary `--node-ip` from the kubelet arguments, because
  that wouldn't remove the annotation that caused the problems.) ([#112184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112184), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network and Node]