- [Known Issues](#known-issues)
  - [Before Upgrading](#before-upgrading)
      - [New Deprecations](#new-deprecations)
      - [Removed Deprecations](#removed-deprecations)
      - [Graduated to Stable/GA](#graduated-to-stablega)
      - [Graduated to Beta](#graduated-to-beta)
    - [New alpha features](#new-alpha-features)
  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-10)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery-1)

- Graduate `ServiceIPStaticSubrange` feature to GA. ([#112163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112163), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))
- Graduated Kubelet CPU Manager to GA. ([#113018](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113018), [@fromanirh](https://github.com/fromanirh))

- Node-specific volume limits has graduated to GA. ([#83568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83568), [@bertinatto](https://github.com/bertinatto))

      - [kube-apiserver:](#kube-apiserver-2)
      - [kube-scheduler:](#kube-scheduler-1)
      - [kube-proxy:](#kube-proxy-1)
      - [Features graduated to beta:](#features-graduated-to-beta)
      - [Features graduated to GA:](#features-graduated-to-ga)
    - [Feature](#feature-5)
      - [Metrics:](#metrics)
    - [Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)](#other-bug-cleanup-or-flake-1)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-19)

- Graduated pod scheduling gates to general availability.
  The `PodSchedulingReadiness` feature gate no longer has any effect, and the
  `.spec.schedulingGates` field is always available within the Pod and PodTemplate APIs. ([#123575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123575), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

    - [IPv4/IPv6 Dual-stack Networking graduates to GA](#ipv4ipv6-dual-stack-networking-graduates-to-ga)
    - [HorizontalPodAutoscaler v2 graduates to GA](#horizontalpodautoscaler-v2-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Generic Ephemeral Volume feature graduates to GA](#generic-ephemeral-volume-feature-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Skip Volume Ownership change graduates to GA](#skip-volume-ownership-change-graduates-to-ga)

- 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))

    - [PID Limits graduates to General Availability](#pid-limits-graduates-to-general-availability)
    - [API Priority and Fairness graduates to Beta](#api-priority-and-fairness-graduates-to-beta)
    - [IPv4/IPv6 run](#ipv4ipv6-run)
    - [go1.15.5](#go1155)
    - [CSI Volume Snapshot graduates to General Availability](#csi-volume-snapshot-graduates-to-general-availability)

- The `ServiceAccountIssuerDiscovery` feature has graduated to GA, and is unconditionally enabled. The `ServiceAccountIssuerDiscovery` feature-gate will be removed in 1.22. ([#98553](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98553), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and...

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 *  New: The `EventListener` API previewed in OkHttp 3.9 has graduated to a stable API. Use this
    interface to track metrics and monitor HTTP requests' size and duration.
 *  New: `okhttp-dnsoverhttps` is an experimental API for doing DNS queries over HTTPS. Using HTTPS