- Added a feature gate `StatefulSetAutoDeletePVC`, which allows PVCs automatically created for StatefulSet pods to be automatically deleted. ([#99728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99728), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))

- When using `kubectl replace` (or the equivalent API call) on a Service, the caller no longer needs to do a read-modify-write cycle to fetch the allocated values for `.spec.clusterIP` and `.spec.ports[].nodePort`.  Instead the API server will automatically carry these forward from the original object when the new object does not specify them. ([#104674](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104674), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin)) [SIG Network]

   * href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291#section-2.5.5.2">RFC 4291</a>.
   *
   * <p>Note: This method takes a {@code String} argument because {@link InetAddress} automatically
   * collapses mapped addresses to IPv4. (It is actually possible to avoid this using one of the
   * obscure {@link Inet6Address} methods, but it would be unwise to depend on such a
   * poorly-documented feature.)
   *

* Changes secret, configMap, downwardAPI and projected volumes to mount read-only, instead of allowing applications to write data and then reverting it automatically. Until version 1.11, setting the feature gate ReadOnlyAPIDataVolumes=false will preserve the old behavior. ([#58720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58720), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith))

* In case StorageObjectInUse feature is disabled and Persistent Volume (PV) or Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) contains a finalizer and the PV or PVC is deleted it is not automatically removed from the system. Now, it is automatically removed. ([#62938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62938), [@pospispa](https://github.com/pospispa))

 *
 * The `java.net.URI` class is strict around what URLs it accepts. It rejects URLs like
 * `http://example.com/abc|def` because the `|` character is unsupported. This class is more
 * forgiving: it will automatically percent-encode the `|'` yielding `http://example.com/abc%7Cdef`.
 * This kind behavior is consistent with web browsers. `HttpUrl` prefers consistency with major web
 * browsers over consistency with obsolete specifications.
 *

  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4985: If you previously included .git in an AWS or Azure URL, we will no longer automatically remove that suffix. You may need to add an extra / to replace the .git for the URL to properly resolve.

  
  If you were using the aggregated API server feature, and you were writing out
  the endpoints for it by hand (rather than letting kube-controller-manager
  generate `Endpoints` and `EndpointSlices` for it automatically based on the
  Service definition), then you should write out an EndpointSlice object rather

  username.expression or extra[*].valueExpression or claimValidationRules[*].expression.
  An example claim validation rule expression that matches the validation automatically
  applied when username.claim is set to 'email' is 'claims.?email_verified.orValue(true) == true'. 
  By explicitly comparing the value to true, we let type-checking see the result will be a boolean, 

- Pods which set `hostNetwork: true` and declare ports, get the `hostPort` field set automatically. Previously this would happen in the PodTemplate of a Deployment, DaemonSet or other workload API.  Now `hostPort` will only be set when an actual Pod is being created.  If this presents a problem, setting the feature gate "DefaultHostNetworkH...