- Kube-apiserver: the `--master-count` flag and `--endpoint-reconciler-type=master-count` reconciler are deprecated in favor of the lease reconciler ([#108062](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108062), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

* Add get/delete cluster, delete context to kubectl config ([#29821](https://github.co...

#### GCE
* On GCI by default logrotate is disabled for application containers in favor of rotation mechanism provided by docker logging driver. ([#40634](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40634), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

#### GKE

- Built etcd image v3.5.14. ([#125235](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125235), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))
- Cleaned deprecated `context.StopCh` in favor of ctx. ([#125661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125661), [@mjudeikis](https://github.com/mjudeikis))

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    * Bump metadata agent version to 0.2-0.0.21-1.
    * Expand the metadata agent's access to all API groups.
    * Remove metadata agent config maps in favor of command line flags.
    * Update the metadata agent's liveness probe to a new /healthz handler.
    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.

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

  - the node label `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` which excludes a node from cloud load balancers (using Service Type=LoadBalancer) is deprecated in favor of `node.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer`. Support for `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` will be removed in v1.18.

- Features:

### HorizontalPodAutoscaler v2 graduates to GA

Version 2 of the HorizontalPodAutoscaler API graduates to stable in the 1.23 release. The HorizontalPodAutoscaler `autoscaling/v2beta2` API is deprecated in favor of the new `autoscaling/v2` API, which the Kubernetes project recommends for all use cases.

This release does *not* deprecate the v1 HorizontalPodAutoscaler API.

### Generic Ephemeral Volume feature graduates to GA