#### New Deprecations

* As a reminder, etcd2 as a backend is deprecated and support will be removed in Kubernetes 1.13. Please ensure that your clusters are upgraded to etcd3 as soon as possible.

  Note that the default stored version remained alpha in 1.34, and whoever enabled beta during 1.34 needed to run a storage migration yourself to ensure you don't depend on alpha data in etcd. ([#132821](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132821), [@cici37](https://github.com/cici37))...

in previous releases. RBAC was moved from beta to v1, and advanced auditing was moved from alpha
to beta. Encryption of resources stored on disk (resources at rest) remained in alpha, and the SIG began exploring integrations with external key management systems.

[SIG Auth]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-auth

### SIG Autoscaling

- Since Kubernetes v1.5, `kubectl apply` has had an alpha-stage `--prune` flag to support deleting previously applied objects that have been removed from the input manifest. This feature has remained in alpha ever since due to performance and correctness issues inherent in its design. This PR exposes a second, independent pruning alpha powered by a new standard named `ApplySets`. An `ApplySet` is a server-side object (by default, a Secret; ConfigMaps...