* Advanced auditing is the default auditing mechanism at `v1beta1`. The new version introduces the following changes:

  * The `--audit-policy-file` option is required if the `AdvancedAuditing` feature is not explicitly turned off (`--feature-gates=AdvancedAuditing=false`) on the API server.
  * The audit log file defaults to JSON encoding when using the advanced auditing feature gate.

tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#configure-probes) section of the documentation for more details.

  - This change in behavior may be unexpected for some clusters and can be disabled by turning off the `ExecProbeTimeout` feature gate. This gate will be locked and removed in future releases so that exec probe timeouts are always respected. ([#94115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94115), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))...

  - [Changelog since v1.23.0](#changelog-since-v1230)
  - [Major Themes](#major-themes)
    - [Dockershim Removed from kubelet](#dockershim-removed-from-kubelet)
    - [Beta APIs Off by Default](#beta-apis-off-by-default)
    - [Signing Release Artifacts](#signing-release-artifacts)
    - [OpenAPI v3](#openapi-v3)

- The kube-proxy sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total metric now gives
  the correct number of rules, rather than being off by one.
  
  Fixed multiple iptables proxy regressions introduced in 1.22:
  
    - When using Services with SessionAffinity, client affinity for an
      endpoint now gets broken when that endpoint becomes non-ready

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

### Promoted CSI Ephemeral Volume to Stable

- The --leader-elect* CLI args are now honored correctly in scheduler. (#106130, @Huang-Wei) [SIG Scheduling]
- The kube-proxy sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total metric now gives
  the correct number of rules, rather than being off by one.
  
  Fixed multiple iptables proxy regressions introduced in 1.22:
  
    - When using Services with SessionAffinity, client affinity for an
      endpoint now gets broken when that endpoint becomes non-ready

* genericapiserver: cut off pkg/serviceaccount dependency ([#39945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39945), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* genericapiserver: cut off pkg/apis/extensions and pkg/storage dependencies ([#39946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39946), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))