## 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))

- Removed GA'ed feature gate `DelegateFSGroupToCSIDriver`. ([#117655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117655), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))
- Removed GA'ed feature gate `DevicePlugins`. ([#117656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117656), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

      - [kube-scheduler:](#kube-scheduler-1)
      - [kube-proxy:](#kube-proxy-1)
      - [Features graduated to beta:](#features-graduated-to-beta)
      - [Features graduated to GA:](#features-graduated-to-ga)
    - [Feature](#feature-5)
      - [Metrics:](#metrics)
    - [Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)](#other-bug-cleanup-or-flake-1)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-19)
- [v1.18.0-rc.1](#v1180-rc1)

### SIG-service-catalog
- The Originating Identity feature, which lets the broker know which user that performed an action, is now GA.
- [Namespaced Brokers](https://svc-cat.io/docs/namespaced-broker-resources/), which enable operators to install a broker into a namespace instead of the cluster level, reached GA.

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

### SIG Auth

[SIG Auth][] is responsible for Kubernetes authentication and authorization, and for

- The `EndpointSlice` API is now GA. The `EndpointSlice` topology field has been removed from the GA API and will be replaced by a new per Endpoint Zone field. If the topology field was previously used, it will be converted into an annotation in the v1 Resource. The `discovery.k8s.io/v1alpha1` API is removed. ([#996...

- GRPC probes are now a GA feature. `GRPCContainerProbe` feature gate was locked to default value and will be removed in v1.29. If you were setting this feature gate explicitly, please remove it now. ([#116233](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116233), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev))

- Promoted feature-gate `LegacyServiceAccountTokenCleanUp` to GA and locked it to default. ([#122635](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122635), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))
- Removed GA featuregate about `ExperimentalHostUserNamespaceDefaultingGate` in `1.30`. ([#122088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122088), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni))

- Removed `GA` feature gate about `CSIMigrationvSphere`. ([#121291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121291), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni))
- Removed `GA` feature gate about `ProbeTerminationGracePeriod`. ([#121257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121257), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni))

- Graduate `ServiceIPStaticSubrange` feature to GA. ([#112163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112163), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))
- Graduated Kubelet CPU Manager to GA. ([#113018](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113018), [@fromanirh](https://github.com/fromanirh))