- Kubeadm: remove the deprecated flag `--insecure-port` from the kube-apiserver manifest that kubeadm manages. The flag had no effect since 1.20, since the insecure serving of the component was disabled in the same version. ([#102121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102121), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

    * Action required: Before upgrading your Kubernetes clusters, double check if you had configured webhooks for cluster-scoped objects (e.g., nodes, persistentVolume), these webhooks will start to take effect. Delete/modify the configs if that's not desirable.

### Other notable changes

- CRI API had auth fields in image pulling marked as `debug_redact`. ([#133135](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133135), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- 'Promoted `cronjob_job_creation_skew` metric to stable to follow the cronjob v2 controller,
  the following metrics had their name updated to match metrics API guidelines:

### Kustomize Updates in Kubectl

[Kustomize](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize) version in kubectl had a jump from v2.0.3 to [v4.0.5](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98946). Kustomize is now treated as a library and future updates will be less sporadic.

### Default Container Annotation

now `NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,MutatingAdmissionWebhook,ValidatingAdmissionWebhook,ResourceQuota,StorageObjectInUseProtection`. Please note that if you previously had not set the `--admission-control` flag, your cluster behavior may change (to be more standard). ([#74610](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74610), [@oomichi](https://github.com/oomichi))



## Deprecations and Removals...

- The calculations for Pod topology spread skew now exclude nodes that
  don't match the node affinity/selector. This may lead to unschedulable pods if you previously had pods
  matching the spreading selector on those excluded nodes (not matching the node affinity/selector),
  especially when the `topologyKey` is not node-level. Revisit the node affinity and/or pod selector in the

- Fixes an issue with the max-in-flight API server filter where the filter could take a long time to process an incoming request if it had been a long time since the last request. ([#96282](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96282), [@staebler](https://github.com/staebler)) [SIG API Machinery]

				if (target.URL().String() != peer.Endpoint) || updateBW {
					updateTgt = true
					targetToUpdate = target
				}
				break
			}
		}
		// replication config had a stale target ARN - update the endpoint
		if updateTgt {
			targetToUpdate.Endpoint = ep.Host
			targetToUpdate.Secure = ep.Scheme == "https"
			targetToUpdate.Credentials = &madmin.Credentials{

  kubeadm no longer sets the node-mask automatically on IPv6 deployments, you must check that your IPv6 service subnet mask is compatible with the default node mask /64 or set it accordingly.