- Deprecate --generator flag from kubectl create commands ([#88655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88655), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI]

- The validation-gen code generator generated validation code that supported validation ratcheting. ([#132236](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132236), [@yongruilin](https://github.com/yongruilin)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Node]

### CLI

* Use structured generator for kubectl autoscale.  ([#55913](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55913), [@wackxu](https://github.com/wackxu))

- K8s.io/apimachinery - scheme.Convert() now uses only explicitly registered conversions - default reflection based conversion is no longer available. `+k8s:conversion-gen` tags can be used with the `k8s.io/code-generator` component to generate conversions. ([#90018](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90018), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Testing]

- Fixed a deep copy issue when retrieving the controller reference. ([#124116](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124116), [@HiranmoyChowdhury](https://github.com/HiranmoyChowdhury)) [SIG API Machinery and Release]
- Fixed code-generator client-gen to work with `api/v1`-like package structure. ([#125162](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125162), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

- Kubectl: the `generator` flag of `kubectl autoscale` has been deprecated and has no effect, it will be removed in a feature release ([#92998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92998), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG CLI]

* Add generate-groups.sh and generate-internal-groups.sh to k8s.io/code-generator to easily run generators against CRD or User API Server types. ([#52186](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52186), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Remove support for `node-expansion` between `node-stage` and `node-publish` ([#108614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108614), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Removed deprecated `generator` and `container-port` flags ([#106824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106824), [@lauchokyip](https://github.com/lauchokyip))

* Add official Microsoft project generator for [serving spaCy with FastAPI and Azure Cognitive Skills](https://github.com/microsoft/cookiecutter-spacy-fastapi) to [Project Generators](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/project-generation/). PR [#1390](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1390) by [@kabirkhan](https://github.com/kabirkhan).

    * The `generate-internal-groups.sh` script in k8s.io/code-generator will generate OpenAPI definitions by default in `pkg/generated/openapi`. Additional API group dependencies can be added via `OPENAPI_EXTRA_PACKAGES=<group>/<version> <group2>/<version2>...`.