- The kube-apiserver ability to serve on an insecure port, deprecated since v1.10, has been removed. The insecure address flags `--address` and `--insecure-bind-address` have no effect in kube-apiserver and will be removed in v1.24. The insecure port flags `--port` and `--insecure-port` may only be set to 0 and will be removed in v1.24. ([#95856](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95856), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42), [SIG API Machinery,...

- The GA TokenRequest and TokenRequestProjection feature gates have been removed and are unconditionally enabled. Remove explicit use of those feature gates in CLI invocations. ([#97148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97148),...

 - The `CSIMigrationVSphereComplete` feature flag is removed. `InTreePluginvSphereUnregister` will be the way moving forward. ([#...

- Removed feature gate `SetHostnameAsFQDN`. ([#108038](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108038), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))
- Removed kube-scheduler insecure flags. You can use `--bind-address` and `--secure-port` instead. ([#106865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106865), [@jonyhy96](https://github.com/jonyhy96))

* Removed deprecated --require-kubeconfig flag, removed default --kubeconfig value (([#58367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58367), [@zhangxiaoyu-zidif](https://github.com/zhangxiaoyu-zidif))

- 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))

    - [(No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)](#no-really-you-must-read-this-before-you-upgrade)
  - [Deprecations](#deprecations)
  - [Removed and deprecated metrics](#removed-and-deprecated-metrics)
    - [Removed metrics](#removed-metrics)
    - [Deprecated metrics](#deprecated-metrics)
  - [Notable Features](#notable-features)
  - [API Changes](#api-changes)

    - [Dependencies](#dependencies-7)
      - [Changed](#changed-7)
      - [Unchanged](#unchanged)
      - [Removed](#removed-7)
      - [Detailed go Dependency Changes](#detailed-go-dependency-changes)
        - [Added](#added-7)
        - [Changed](#changed-8)
        - [Removed](#removed-8)
- [v1.16.0-rc.2](#v1160-rc2)
  - [Downloads for v1.16.0-rc.2](#downloads-for-v1160-rc2)

*   Kubelet no longer removes unregistered extended resource capacities from node status; cluster admins will have to manually remove extended resources exposed via device plugins when they the remove plugins themselves. ([#53353](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53353),[ @jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind)
    - [Feature](#feature)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies)
    - [Added](#added)
    - [Changed](#changed)
    - [Removed](#removed)
- [v1.27.12](#v12712)
  - [Downloads for v1.27.12](#downloads-for-v12712)
    - [Source Code](#source-code-1)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-1)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-1)