- Promoted Job Pod Replacement Policy to general availability. The `JobPodReplacementPolicy` feature gate was locked to `true` and will be removed in a future Kubernetes release. ([#132173](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132173), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele))...

  - `kubeadm config upload` has been deprecated, as its replacement is now graduated. Please use `kubeadm init phase upload-config` instead. ([#77946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77946), [@Klaven](https://github.com/Klaven))

### Registry
* Use daemonset in docker registry add on ([#35582](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35582), [@surajssd](https://github.com/surajssd))
* contribute deis/registry-proxy as a replacement for kube-registry-proxy ([#35797](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35797), [@bacongobbler](https://github.com/bacongobbler))

## External Dependency Version Information

- Always create configmaps/extensions-apiserver-authentication from kube-apiserver. ([#67694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67694), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
- Switched certificate data replacement from "REDACTED" to "DATA+OMITTED" ([#66023](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66023), [@ibrasho](https://github.com/ibrasho))

- Fixed CEL estimated cost of `replace()` to handle a zero length replacement string correctly.
  Previously this would cause the estimated cost to be higher than it should be. ([#120097](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120097), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery]

- The v1alpha1 PodPreset API and admission plugin has been removed with no built-in replacement. Admission webhooks can be used to modify pods on creation. ([#94090](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94090), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, CLI, Cloud Provider, Scalability and Testing]

- 'kubeadm: marked the sub-phase of ''init kubelet-finilize'' called ''experimental-cert-rotation''
  as deprecated and print a warning if it is used directly; it will be removed in
  a future release. Add a replacement sub-phase ''enable-client-cert-rotation''.' ([#124419](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124419), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [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))

FFF9..FFFB    ; disallowed                             # 3.0  INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR..INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION TERMINATOR
FFFC          ; disallowed                             # 2.1  OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
FFFD          ; disallowed                             # 1.1  REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
FFFE..FFFF    ; disallowed                             # 1.1  <noncharacter-FFFE>..<noncharacter-FFFF>

### Network

In v1.9 SIG Network has implemented alpha support for IPv6, and alpha support for CoreDNS as a drop-in replacement for kube-dns. Additionally, SIG Network has begun the deprecation process for the extensions/v1beta1 NetworkPolicy API in favor of the networking.k8s.io/v1 equivalent.

### Node