* The ability to use the insecure HTTP 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))

  - kube_apiserver_pod_logs_pods_logs_backend_tls_failure_total becomes kube_apiserver_pod_logs_backend_tls_failure_total
  - kube_apiserver_pod_logs_pods_logs_insecure_backend_total becomes kube_apiserver_pod_logs_insecure_backend_total ([#114497](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114497), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet))
- Kubeadm: removed the deprecated `v1beta2` API. kubeadm 1.26's `config migrate`

- GCERegionalPersistentDisk feature is GA now! ([#70716](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70716), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
- Added secure port 10259 to the kube-scheduler (enabled by default) and deprecate old insecure port 10251. Without further flags self-signed certs are created on startup in memory. ([#69663](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69663), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* The `--insecure-allow-any-token` flag has been removed from the API server. Users of the flag should use impersonation headers instead for debugging. ([#49045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49045), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Kubeadm: add the deprecated flag --port=0 to kube-controller-manager and kube-scheduler manifests to disable insecure serving. Without this flag the components by default serve (e.g. /metrics) insecurely on the default node interface (controlled by --address). Users that wish to override this behavior and enable insecure serving can pass a custom --port=X via kubeadm's "extraArgs" mechanic for these components. ([#92720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92720),...

- Kubeadm: add the deprecated flag --port=0 to kube-controller-manager and kube-scheduler manifests to disable insecure serving. Without this flag the components by default serve (e.g. /metrics) insecurely on the default node interface (controlled by --address). Users that wish to override this behavior and enable insecure serving can pass a custom --port=X via kubeadm's "extraArgs" mechanic for these components. ([#92720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92720),...

- Secure serving on port 10258 to cloud-controller-manager (configurable via `--secure-port`) is now enabled. Delegated authentication and authorization are to be configured using the same flags as for aggregated API servers. Without configuration, the secure port will only allow access to `/healthz`. ([#67069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67069), [@sttts](https...

### Feature

- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.16.9 (#105672, @cpanato) [SIG Cloud Provider, Instrumentation, Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Backport: e2e.test now uses the secure port to retrieve metrics data to ensure compatibility with 1.21 and 1.22 (for upgrade tests) (#104328, @pohly) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation, Storage and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

* kubeadm: kubelets in kubeadm clusters now disable the readonly port (10255). If you're relying on unauthenticated access to the readonly port, please switch to using the secure port (10250). Instead, you can now use ServiceAccount tokens when talking to the secure port, which will make it easier to get access to, for example, the `/metrics` endpoint of the kubelet, securely. ([#64187](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64187), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))...

- Kube-apiserver: the insecure address flags `--address`, `--insecure-bind-address`, `--port` and `--insecure-port` (inert since 1.20) are removed ([#106859](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106859), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42))