## Urgent Upgrade Notes 

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- 'The `IPv6DualStack` feature gate for external cloud providers was removed.
  (The feature became GA in 1.23 and the gate was removed for all other
  components several releases ago.) If you were still manually

- The `StartupProbe` feature gate that is GA since v1.20 is unconditionally enabled, and can no longer be specified via the `--feature-gates` argument. ([#104168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104168), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov))

* Add kubelet_node_name metrics. ([#72910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72910), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
* The HugePages feature gate has graduated to GA, and can no longer be disabled. The feature gate will be removed in v1.16 ([#72785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72785), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

## Notable Features
### Stable
- Graduate ScheduleDaemonSetPods to GA. (feature gate will be removed in 1.18) ([#82795](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82795), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))
- Graduate TaintNodesByCondition to GA in 1.17. (feature gate will be removed in 1.18) ([#82703](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82703), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

- The `AttachVolumeLimit` feature gate (GA since v1.17) has been removed and now unconditionally enabled. ([#96539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96539), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov))

- a new `EndpointSliceProxying` feature gate has been added to control the use of EndpointSlices in kube-proxy. The EndpointSlice feature gate that used to control this behavior no longer affects kube-proxy. This feature has been disabled by default. ([#86137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86137), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))...

* The alpha Accelerators feature gate is deprecated and will be removed in v1.11. Please use device plugins ([https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/368](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/368)) instead. They can be enabled using the DevicePlugins feature gate. ([#57384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57384), [@mindprince](https://github.com/mindprince))

* Use of the alpha initializers feature now requires enabling the `Initializers` feature gate. This feature gate is automatically enabled if the `Initializers` admission plugin is enabled.([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436))

* Use of the alpha initializers feature now requires enabling the `Initializers` feature gate. This feature gate is auto-enabled if the `Initialzers` admission plugin is enabled. ([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* CRI logging and stats are now considered beta ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/552))
* The dynamic Kubelet config feature is now beta, and the DynamicKubeletConfig feature gate is on by default. In order to use dynamic Kubelet config, ensure that the Kubelet's --dynamic-config-dir option is set.  ([#64275](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64275), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))