- The `NetworkPolicyLegacy` test suite (deprecated in `v1.21`) has now officially been removed in favor of the new table driven e2e tests. ([#118915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118915), [@astoycos](https://github.com/astoycos))

In v1.9 SIG Network has implemented alpha support for IPv6, and alpha support for CoreDNS as a drop-in replacement for kube-dns. Additionally, SIG Network has begun the deprecation process for the extensions/v1beta1 NetworkPolicy API in favor of the networking.k8s.io/v1 equivalent.

### Node

- [`KT-67806`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-67806) KMP import fails if android target has flavors
- [`KT-67636`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-67636) Gradle configuration error when use withJava()
- [`KT-63536`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-63536) KMP: MetadataDependencyTransformationTask is not Thread Safe

  - `node_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `pod_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  - `pod_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `resource_scrape_error`
  
  Deprecated (renamed) `scrape_error` in favor of `resource_scrape_error` ([#116897](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116897), [@Richabanker](https://github.com/Richabanker)) [SIG Architecture, Instrumentation, Node and Testing]

                  on the route table. Set to true to run in network-policy mode only.
                type: boolean
              routeTableRange:
                description: Deprecated in favor of RouteTableRanges. Calico programs
                  additional Linux route tables for various purposes. RouteTableRange
                  specifies the indices of the route tables that Calico should use.

### Fixes

* ⬆ Upgrade Swagger UI copy of `oauth2-redirect.html` to include fixes for flavors of authorization code flows in Swagger UI. PR [#3439](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/3439) initial PR by [@koonpeng](https://github.com/koonpeng).

Related to this topic, the in-tree Azure and GCP authentication plugins have been [deprecated](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102181) in favor of out-of-tree implementations.

### Server-side Apply graduates to GA

							Type:      ...

        "properties": {
          "controller": {

Extensibility features include API aggregation (beta), CustomResourceDefinitions (beta) in favor of ThirdPartyResources, support for extensible admission controllers (alpha), pluggable cloud providers (alpha), and container runtime interface (CRI) enhancements.

## **Action Required Before Upgrading**

### Network