These extension points can now be abstracted away due to their irrelevance for most users.

### CSI Migration updates

CSI Migration enables the replacement of existing in-tree storage plugins such as `kubernetes.io/gce-pd` or `kubernetes.io/aws-ebs` with a corresponding CSI driver.
If CSI Migration is working properly, Kubernetes end users shouldn’t notice a difference.

ation-past-present-and-future/), and with the release of v1.25, it has been removed. The updates required to improve its usability would have introduced breaking changes, so it became necessary to remove it in favor of a more friendly replacement. That replacement is [Pod Security Admission](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/security/pod-security-admission/), which graduates to Stable with this release. If you are currently relying on PodSecurityPolicy, please follow the instructions for [migration...

- 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))...

- 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]

- New `service.kubernetes.io/topology-mode` annotation has been introduced as a replacement for the `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` annotation.
  - `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` annotation has been deprecated.

and the second value, of type <code>rune</code>, will be the value of
the corresponding code point. If the iteration encounters an invalid
UTF-8 sequence, the second value will be <code>0xFFFD</code>,
the Unicode replacement character, and the next iteration will advance
a single byte in the string.
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The iteration order over maps is not specified
and is not guaranteed to be the same from one iteration to the next.

- '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 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]

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>