### **Multicluster**

*   Development of Kubernetes Federation has moved to [github.com/kubernetes/federation](https://github.com/kubernetes/federation). This move out of tree also means that Federation will begin releasing separately from Kubernetes. Impact:
    *   Federation-specific behavior will no longer be included in kubectl
    *   kubefed will no longer be released as part of Kubernetes

- WindowsEndpointSliceProxying feature gate has graduated to beta and is enabled by default. This means kube-proxy will  read from EndpointSlices instead of Endpoints on Windows by default. ([#99794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99794), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Network]

- Graduated `Kubelet Topology Manager` to GA. ([#116093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116093), [@swatisehgal](https://github.com/swatisehgal))
- Graduated `KubeletTracing` to beta, which means that the feature gate is now enabled by default. ([#115750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115750), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))
- Graduated seccomp profile defaulting to GA.
  

For more information, see [#53109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53109).

## Deprecations

This section provides an overview of deprecated API versions, options, flags, and arguments. Deprecated means that we intend to remove the capability from a future release. After removal, the capability will no longer work. The sections are organized by SIGs.

### Apps

- 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))...

#### Other API changes:
- The beta feature `ServerSideApply` enables tracking and managing changed fields for all new objects, which means there will be `managedFields` in `metadata` with the list of managers and their owned fields.

- The Kubernetes apiserver now emits a warning message for Pods with a null labelSelector in podAffinity or topologySpreadConstraints. The null labelSelector means "match none". Using it in podAffinity or topologySpreadConstraint could lead to unintended behavior. ([#117025](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117025), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

* **[Pod priority and preemption](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/) is now enabled by default.** Note that this means that pods from *any* namespace can now request priority classes that compete with and/or cause preemption of critical system pods that are already running. If that is not desired, disable the PodPriority feature by setting `--feature-gates=PodPriority=false`...

- kubeadm has graduated `kubeadm alpha phase` commands to `kubeadm init phase`. This means that the phases of creating a control-plane node are now tightly integrated as part of the `init` command. Alpha features, not yet ready for GA are still kept under `kubeadm alpha` and we appreciate feedback on them.

- Introduce a feature gate `DisableCloudProviders` allowing to disable cloud-provider initialization in KAPI, KCM and kubelet.