- Added the feature gate CBORServingAndStorage to allow CBOR as the encoding for API request and response bodies, and as the storage encoding for custom resources. Clients must opt in; programs built with client-go can do this using the client-go feature gates ClientsAllowCBOR and ClientsPreferCBOR. ([#128539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128539),...

* Default scheduler code is moved out of the plugin directory. ([#57852](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57852), [@misterikkit](https://github.com/misterikkit))

* CDK nginx ingress is now handled via a daemon set. ([#57530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57530), [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346))

([#60371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60371), [@superbrothers](https://github.com/superbrothers))
* The shortcuts that were moved server-side in at least 1.9 have been removed from being hardcoded in kubectl. This means that the client-based restmappers have been moved to client-go, where everyone who needs them can have access. ([#63507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63507), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

* Node affinity has moved from annotations to api fields in the pod spec.  Node affinity that is defined in the annotations will be ignored. ([#37299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37299), [@rrati](https://github.com/rrati))

### **Multicluster**

*   Development of Kubernetes Federation has moved to [github.com/kubernetes/federation](https://github.com/kubernetes/federation). This move out of tree also means that Federation will begin releasing separately from Kubernetes. Impact:
    *   Federation-specific behavior will no longer be included in kubectl