- Any Prometheus queries that match `pod_name` and `container_name` labels (e.g. cadvisor or kubelet probe metrics) should be updated to use `pod` and `container` instead. `pod_name` and `container_name` labels will be present alongside `pod` and `container` labels for one transitional release and removed in the future.
([#69099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69099), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

## Deprecations

- kubectl

- SCTP is now supported as an additional protocol (alpha) alongside TCP and UDP in Pod, Service, Endpoint, and NetworkPolicy.  ([#64973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64973), [@janosi](https://github.com/janosi)) Courtesy of SIG API Machinery, SIG Apps, SIG Architecture, SIG CLI, SIG Cloud Provider,...

should perform better because it frontends equivalent mirrors in other clouds.  Please point your clusters to the new registry going forward. \n\nAdmission/Policy integrations that have an allowlist of registries need to include `registry.k8s.io` alongside `k8s.gcr.io`.\nAir-gapped environments and image garbage-collection configurations will need to update to pre-pull and preserve required images under `registry.k8s.io` as well as `k8s.gcr.io`. ([#109938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109938),...

    }

    // IF YOU MODIFY THE CODE HERE, you must update StringsRepeatBenchmark
    int len = string.length();
    long longSize = (long) len * (long) count;
    int size = (int) longSize;
    if (size != longSize) {
      throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException("Required array size too large: " + longSize);
    }

    char[] array = new char[size];
    string.getChars(0, len, array, 0);
    int n;

- Enabled the `node-local` kubelet podresources API endpoint on windows, alongside unix. ([#115133](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115133), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani))

- Scheduler v1 Policy config or algorithm-provider settings can now be passed alongside v1beta1 ComponentConfig to aid transition from Policy to CC ([#92531](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92531), [@damemi](https://github.com/damemi)) [SIG Scheduling]