- Kubelet:  removed the deprecated flag `--cloud-config` from the command line. ([#130161](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130161), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Node and Scalability]

- Replace deprecated sets.String with sets.Set[string] in apiserver admission subsystem. This is a breaking change for consumers of the NewLifecycle function. ([#134044](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134044),...

- Improved PVC Protection Controller's scalability by batch-processing PVCs by namespace with lazy live pod listing. ([#125372](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125372), [@hungnguyen243](https://github.com/hungnguyen243)) [SIG Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]

- You can use this Builder function to create events Field Selector ([#101817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101817), [@cndoit18](https://github.com/cndoit18)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]
- `Scheduler` now registers event handlers dynamically. ([#101394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101394), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- Kubelet: changed `MemoryThrottlingFactor` default value to `0.9` and formulas to calculate `memory.high` ([#115371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115371), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- github.com/seccomp/libseccomp-golang: [v0.10.0](https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp-golang/tree/v0.10.0)
- github.com/syndtr/gocapability: [42c35b4](https://github.com/syndtr/gocapability/tree/42c35b4)
- github.com/urfave/cli: [v1.22.14](https://github.com/urfave/cli/tree/v1.22.14)
- gopkg.in/square/go-jose.v2: v2.6.0



# v1.33.0-rc.1

## Known Issues

      - [Networking](#networking-1)
      - [Node controller](#node-controller)
      - [Node Components](#node-components-1)
      - [Scheduling](#scheduling-2)
      - [Security](#security-1)
      - [Scalability](#scalability)
  - [**External Dependency Version Information**](#external-dependency-version-information)
    - [Previous Releases Included in v1.7.0](#previous-releases-included-in-v170)
- [v1.7.0-rc.1](#v170-rc1)

- Indexed Jobs graduates to stable ([#107395](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107395), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps, Architecture and Testing]...

  - Intree volume plugin quobyte support is been completely removed from Kubernetes. ([#111619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111619), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227)) [SIG API Machinery, Node, Scalability and Storage]