- The `batch/v2alpha1.CronJob` is deprecated in favor of `batch/v1beta1`.

 - The `batch/v2alpha1.ScheduledJob` was removed. Use `batch/v1beta1.CronJob` instead.

### Auth

 - The RBAC v1alpha1 API group is deprecated in favor of RBAC v1.

 - Newly provisioned PVs by gce-pd will no longer have the beta FailureDomain label. gce-pd volume plugin will start to have GA topology label instead. ([#98700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98700), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))...

- `KMSv1` is deprecated and will only receive security updates going forward. Use `KMSv2` instead. In a future release, Set `--feature-gates=KMSv1=true` to use the deprecated KMSv1 feature. ([#119007](https://github...

- Fixes bug where OpenAPIV2 config was used instead of V3, and gives clear error message about OpenAPIV3 requirement ([#120612](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120612), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Deprecation

- API server's deprecated `--service-account-api-audiences` flag was removed.  Use `--api-audiences` instead. ([#108624](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108624), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov))
- Ginkgo.Measure has been deprecated in Ginkgo V2, switch to use gomega/gmeasure instead ([#111065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111065), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Autoscaling and Testing]

- Kubeadm: Remove the deprecated command `kubeadm alpha kubeconfig`. Please use `kubeadm kubeconfig` instead. ([#101938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101938), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42))

- Kube-scheduler remove insecure flags. You can use --bind-address and --secure-port instead. ([#106865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106865), [@jonyhy...

 - Log messages in JSON format are written to stderr by default now (same as text format) instead of stdout. Users who expected JSON output on stdout must now capture stderr instead or in addition to stdout. ([#106146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106146), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

   ([#120246](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120246), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- Log messages and metrics for the watch cache are now keyed by `<resource>.<group>` instead of `go` struct type. This means e.g. that `*v1.Pod` becomes `pods`. Additionally, resources that come from `CustomResourceDefinitions` are displayed as the correct resource and group, instead of `*unstructured.Unstructured`. ([#111807](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111807), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))