- The deprecated Kubelet flag `--allow-privileged` has been removed. Remove any use of the flag from your kubelet scripts or manifests. ([#77820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77820), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- kubeadm: removed the deprecated and NO-OP flags `--feature-gates` for `kubeadm upgrade apply` and `--api-server-manifest`, `--controller-manager-manifest`, and `--scheduler-manifest` for `kubeadm upgrade diff`. ([#127123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127123), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* kube-controller-manager: fixed issue display help for the deprecated insecure --port flag ([#71601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71601), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Update Cluster Autoscaler version in gce manifests to 1.13.1 (https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/releases/tag/cluster-autoscaler-1.13.1) ([#71842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71842), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))

- Kubernetes is now built with Go `v1.21.3`. ([#121149](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121149), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))
- List of metric labels can now be configured by supplying a manifest using the `--allow-metric-labels-manifest` flag. ([#118299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118299), [@rexagod](https://github.com/rexagod))

- Defining minimum required documentation from each cloud provider which includes (in collaboration with SIG Docs):
  - example manifests for the kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-schedule, kubelet, and the cloud-controller-manager
  - labels/annotations that are consumed by any cloud specific controllers

- Remove the deprecated flag `--experimental-check-node-capabilities-before-mount`. With CSI now GA, there is a better alternative. Remove any use of  `--experimental-check-node-capabilities-before-mount` from your kubelet scripts or manifests. ([#104732](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104732), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))

- Restores priority of static control plane pods in the cluster/gce/manifests control-plane manifests ([#89970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89970), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Node]

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- `kubectl apply` now coerces `null` values for labels and annotations in manifests to empty string values, 

- Kubeadm: fixed a bug where the path of the manifest can not be specified when `kubeadm upgrade diff` specified a config file, and the `--api-server-manifest`, `--controller-manager-manifest` and `--scheduler-manifest` flags of `kubeadm upgrade diff` are marked as deprecated and will be removed in a future release. ([#125779](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125779),...