CoreDNS is now the default cluster DNS passing all of the scale/resource usage tests
Node-local DNS cache feature is available in Alpha. This feature deploys a lightweight DNS caching Daemonset that avoids the conntrack and converts queries from UDP to more reliable TCP.
PodReady++ feature now has `kubectl` CLI support.

> NOTE: Server side replication is supported for idempotent versions on delete marked objects.

### Motivation

- Removed the generally available feature gate `HonorPVReclaimPolicy`, which was locked and enabled since 1.33. ([#135335](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135335), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

- The `AdvancedAuditing` feature gate that graduated to GA in `v1.12` (and was unconditionally
  enabled) has been removed. ([#118763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118763), [@Shubham82](https://github.com/Shubham82))

### **Storage**

*   [alpha] The LocalPersistentVolumes alpha feature now also requires the VolumeScheduling alpha feature.  This is a breaking change, and the following changes are required:
    *   The VolumeScheduling feature gate must also be enabled on kube-scheduler and kube-controller-manager components.

 * <p>
 * Parse the Java source file containing the versions declarations and use the known rules to figure out which are all
 * the version the current one is wire and index compatible with.
 * On top of this, figure out which of these are unreleased and provide the branch they can be built from.
 * <p>

          "tooling-native",
          "unit-test-fixtures",
          "war"
        ],
        "parallelizationMethod": {
          "name": "TestDistribution"
        }
      },
      {
        "subprojects": [
          "build-cache-http",
          "ear",
          "instrumentation-reporting",
          "plugins-distribution",
          "plugins-jvm-test-fixtures",
          "plugins-jvm-test-suite",

- The `CSIMigrationAzureFile` feature gate (for the feature which graduated to GA in v1.26) is now unconditionally enabled and will be removed in v1.28. ([#114953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114953), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

/**
 * Test for {@link Network} methods which have default implementations. Currently those
 * implementations are in {@link AbstractNetwork}; in future they might be in {@link Network}
 * itself, once we are willing to use Java 8 default methods.
 */
@AndroidIncompatible
// TODO(cpovirk): Figure out Android JUnit 4 support. Does it work with Gingerbread? @RunWith?
@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
@NullUnmarked

### CSI Service Account Token

CSI Service Account Token feature moves to Beta in 1.21. This feature improves the security posture and allows CSI drivers to receive pods' [bound service account tokens](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-auth/1205-bound-service-account-tokens/README.md). This feature also provides a knob to re-publish volumes so that short-lived volumes can be refreshed.