* requests from a node for a TLS client certificate for itself are approved if the CSR creator has `create` permission on the `certificatesigningrequests` resource and the `selfnodeclient` subresource in the `certificates.k8s.io` API group

* kubectl port-forward no longer supports the deprecated -p <pod-name> flag; the flag itself is unnecessary and should be replaced by just the `<pod-name>`. ([#59705](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59705), [@phsiao](https://github.com/phsiao))

- Promote NodeLease feature to GA.
The feature make Lease object changes an additional healthiness signal from Node. Together with that, we reduce frequency of NodeStatus updates to 5m by default in case of no changes to status itself ([#84351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84351), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
- CSI Topology feature is GA. ([#83474](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83474), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

* Fixes an issue where the resourceVersion of an object in a DELETE watch event was not the resourceVersion of the delete itself, but of the last update to the object. This could disrupt the ability of clients clients to re-establish watches properly. ([#58547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- During device plugin allocation, resources requested by the pod can only be allocated if the device plugin has registered itself to kubelet AND healthy devices are present on the node to be allocated. If these conditions are not sattsfied, the pod would fail with `UnexpectedAdmissionError` error. ([#117719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117719), [@swatisehg...

- During device plugin allocation, resources requested by the pod can only be allocated if the device plugin has registered itself to kubelet AND healthy devices are present on the node to be allocated. If these conditions are not sattsfied, the pod would fail with `UnexpectedAdmissionError` error. ([#116376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116376), [@swatisehg...

    * or grant self-deletion permission explicitly:
        * `kubectl create clusterrole self-deleting-nodes --verb=delete --resource=nodes`
        * `kubectl create clusterrolebinding self-deleting-nodes --clusterrole=self-deleting-nodes --group=system:nodes`

- kube-controller-manager currently needs a writable `--cert-dir` (default is `/var/run/kubernetes`) for generating self-signed certificates, when no `--tls-cert-file` or `--tls-private-key-file` are provided.

    * `kubectl delete node/<nodeName>`
    * or grant self-deletion permission explicitly:
        * `kubectl create clusterrole self-deleting-nodes --verb=delete --resource=nodes`
        * `kubectl create clusterrolebinding self-deleting-nodes --clusterrole=self-deleting-nodes --group=system:nodes`

## Changelog since v1.16.0

### Other notable changes

* Limit the body length of exec readiness/liveness probes. remote CRIs and Docker shim read a max of 16MB output of which the exec probe itself inspects 10kb. ([#82514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82514), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))