* The NamespaceExists and NamespaceAutoProvision admission controllers have been removed. ([#31250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31250), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))
    * All cluster operators should use NamespaceLifecycle.

* The NamespaceExists and NamespaceAutoProvision admission controllers have been removed. ([#31250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31250), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))
    * All cluster operators should use NamespaceLifecycle.

The cri-tools project, which aims to provide consistent tooling for operators to debug and introspect their nodes in production independent of their chosen container runtime, graduated to GA.

- [Namespaced Brokers](https://svc-cat.io/docs/namespaced-broker-resources/), which enable operators to install a broker into a namespace instead of the cluster level, reached GA.
- The [Service Plan Defaults](https://svc-cat.io/docs/service-plan-defaults/) feature is in alpha and is under active development. This feature gives operators the ability to define defaults for when someone provisions a service.

on average) and rapid updates to pod configuration should take effect sooner.
  
  A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states.  Operators may use the metrics to track an excess of pods in the orphaned state that may not be completing. ([#113145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113145), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud...

### API Change

- A new field `omitManagedFields` has been added to both `audit.Policy` and `audit.PolicyRule` 
  so cluster operators can opt in to omit managed fields of the request and response bodies from 

   * Returns an iterator over the merged contents of all given {@code iterators}, traversing every
   * element of the input iterators. Equivalent entries will not be de-duplicated.
   *
   * <p>Callers must ensure that the source {@code iterators} are in non-descending order as this
   * method does not sort its input.
   *
   * <p>For any equivalent elements across all {@code iterators}, elements are returned in the order

   * Returns an iterator over the merged contents of all given {@code iterators}, traversing every
   * element of the input iterators. Equivalent entries will not be de-duplicated.
   *
   * <p>Callers must ensure that the source {@code iterators} are in non-descending order as this
   * method does not sort its input.
   *
   * <p>For any equivalent elements across all {@code iterators}, elements are returned in the order

- Kube-apiserver: jsonpath expressions with consecutive recursive descent operators are no longer evaluated for custom resource printer columns ([#93408](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93408), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith)) [SIG API Machinery]

of the popper\n    const measurement = (index === 1 ? !useHeight : useHeight)\n      ? 'height'\n      : 'width';\n    let mergeWithPrevious = false;\n    return (\n      op\n        // This aggregates any `+` or `-` sign that aren't considered operators\n        // e.g.: 10 + +5 => [10, +, +5]\n        .reduce((a, b) => {\n          if (a[a.length - 1] === '' && ['+', '-'].indexOf(b) !== -1) {\n            a[a.length - 1] = b;\n            mergeWithPrevious = true;\n            return a;\n     ...