- Fixes an issue that can result in namespaced custom resources being orphaned when their namespace is deleted, if the CRD defining the custom resource is removed concurrently with namespaces being deleted, then recreated. ([#93790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93790), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

#### ThirdPartyResource

If you use ThirdPartyResource objects, they have moved from being namespaced-scoped to be cluster-scoped. Before upgrading to 1.3.0, export and delete any existing ThirdPartyResource objects using a 1.2.x client:

kubectl get thirdpartyresource --all-namespaces -o yaml > tprs.yaml
kubectl delete -f tprs.yaml

  - A namespaced object with an ownerReference referencing a uid of a namespaced kind which does not exist in the same namespace is now consistently treated as though that owner does not exist, and the child object is deleted.

- Restore the ability to `kubectl apply --prune` without --namespace flag.  Since 1.17, `kubectl apply --prune` only prunes resources in the default namespace (or from kubeconfig) or explicitly specified in command line flag.  But this is s breaking change from kubectl 1.16, which can prune resources in all namespace in config file.  This patch restores the kubectl 1.16 behaviour. ([#89551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89551),...

- Return a warning when applying a `pod-security.kubernetes.io` label to a PodSecurity-exempted namespace.
  Stop including the `pod-security.kubernetes.io/exempt=namespace` audit annotation on namespace requests. ([#109680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109680), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression watching a single namespace via the deprecated /api/v1/watch/namespaces/$name endpoint where watch events were not delivered after the watch was established ([#126151](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126151), [@xyz-li](https://github.com/xyz-li)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Existing InTree AzureFile PVs which don't have a secret namespace defined will now work properly after enabling CSI migration - the namespace will be obtained from ClaimRef. ([#108000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108000), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

* Adding support for DeleteOptions.OrphanDependents for federated namespaces. Setting it to false while deleting a federated namespace also deletes the corresponding namespace from all registered clusters. ([#34648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34648), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))

- Fix apiserver startup failure during upgrade when MultiCIDRServiceAllocator is enabled and the cluster has a large number of namespaces. The IP address repair controller now retries on Forbidden errors from admission plugins that are not yet ready. ([#137147](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/137147), [@haojiwu](https://github.com/haojiwu)) [SIG Testing]

- Fixes an issue that can result in namespaced custom resources being orphaned when their namespace is deleted, if the CRD defining the custom resource is removed concurrently with namespaces being deleted, then recreated. ([#93790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93790), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]