- Action-required: kubeadm: remove the deprecated feature --experimental-kustomize from kubeadm commands. The feature was replaced with --experimental-patches in 1.19. To migrate see the --help description for the --experimental-patches flag. ([#94871](https://githu...

- The beta `PodSecurityPolicy` admission plugin, deprecated since 1.21, is removed. Follow the instructions at https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/migrate-from-psp/ to migrate to the built-in PodSecurity admission plugin (or to another third-party  policy webhook) prior to upgrading to v1.25. ([#109798](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109798), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Migrated the `nodevolumelimits` scheduler plugin to use [contextual logging](https://k8s.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/system-logs/#contextual-logging). ([#116884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116884), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))

  - NetworkPolicy resources will no longer be served from `extensions/v1beta1` in v1.16. Migrate use to the `networking.k8s.io/v1` API, available since v1.8. Existing persisted data can be retrieved via the `networking.k8s.io/v1` API.
  - PodSecurityPolicy resources will no longer be served from `extensions/v1beta1` in v1.16. Migrate to the `policy/v1beta1` API, available since v1.10. Existing persisted data can be retrieved via the `policy/v1beta1` API.

- Migrated validation in `resource.k8s.io` to declarative validation.
  When the `DeclarativeValidation` feature gate is enabled, mismatches with existing validation are reported via metrics.

#### User Provided Extensions
* [beta] ThirdPartyResource is deprecated. Please migrate to the successor, CustomResourceDefinition. For more information, see [Custom Resources](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/api-extension/custom-resources/) and [Migrate a ThirdPartyResource to CustomResourceDefinition](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/migrate-third-party-resource/).

And with this, support for **Pydantic v1 is now deprecated** and will be **removed** from FastAPI in a future version soon.

**Note**: have in mind that the Pydantic team already stopped supporting Pydantic v1 for recent versions of Python, starting with Python 3.14.

  - Ingress resources will no longer be served from `extensions/v1beta1` in v1.20. Migrate use to the `networking.k8s.io/v1beta1` API, available since v1.14. Existing persisted data can be retrieved via the `networking.k8s.io/v1beta1` API.

    CacheStats stats = cache.stats();
    assertThat(stats.requestCount()).isEqualTo(1);
    assertThat(stats.hitCount()).isEqualTo(0);
    assertThat(stats.hitRate()).isEqualTo(0.0);
    assertThat(stats.missCount()).isEqualTo(1);
    assertThat(stats.missRate()).isEqualTo(1.0);
    assertThat(stats.loadCount()).isEqualTo(1);
    long totalLoadTime = stats.totalLoadTime();
    assertThat(totalLoadTime).isAtLeast(0);

* There's a known issue where the Vertical Pod Autoscaler will radically change implementation in 1.12, so users of VPA (alpha) in 1.11 are warned that they will not be able to automatically migrate their VPA configs from 1.11 to 1.12.


## Before Upgrading