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

### SIG Cloud Provider

etes/kubernetes/pull/59666), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

* [GCP kube-up.sh] Variables that were part of kube-env that were only used for kubelet flags are no longer being set, and are being replaced by the more portable mechanism of the kubelet configuration file. The individual variables in the kube-env metadata entry were never meant to be a stable interface and this release note only applies if you are depending on them. ([#60020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60020),...

* Add logging for enabled/disabled API Groups ([#32198](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32198), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
* New federation deployment mechanism now allows non-GCP clusters. ([#34620](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34620), [@madhusudancs](https://github.com/madhusudancs))
     * Writes the federation kubeconfig to the local kubeconfig file.

- Deprecate `--record` flag in `kubectl`. The `--record` flag is being replaced with the [mechanism](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-cli/859-kubectl-headers) which annotates HTTP requests with kubectl command details. ([#102873](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102873), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))...

   ([#123001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123001), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

#### Deployments
* [beta] Deployments uses a hashing collision avoidance mechanism that ensures new rollouts will not block on hashing collisions anymore. ([kubernetes/features#287](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/287))

#### PodDisruptionBudget

- Added a mechanism for configurable container restarts: _container-level restart rules_. This was an alpha feature behind the `ContainerRestartRules` feature gate. ([#132642](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132642), [@yuanwang04](https://github.com/yuanwang04))...

- Kubeadm: respect user specified image repository when using Kubernetes ci version ([#111017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111017), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- Kubeadm: support retry mechanism for removing container in reset phase ([#110837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110837), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- The in-tree Azure plugin has been deprecated. The Azure kubelogin plugin serves as an out-of-tree replacement via the kubectl/client-go credential plugin mechanism.  Users will now see a warning in the logs regarding this deprecation. ([#107904](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107904), [@sabbey37](https://github.com/sabbey37))