* Authenticated users are decorated with a 'system:authenticated' group.

  * Liveness and readiness probes now support more configuration parameters:
periodSeconds, successThreshold, failureThreshold
  * The new ReplicaSet API (Beta) in the Extensions API group is similar to

- Upon successful authorization check, an impersonated user is added to the system:authenticated group.
  system:anonymous when impersonated is added to the system:unauthenticated group. ([#94408](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94408), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

### Introducing Graceful Node Shutdown (Alpha)

The `GracefulNodeShutdown` feature is now in Alpha. This allows kubelet to be aware of node system shutdowns, enabling graceful termination of pods during a system shutdown. This feature can be [enabled through feature gate](https://docs.k8s.io/concepts/architecture/nodes/#graceful-node-shutdown).

### Runtime log sanitation

- Optimizing loadbalancer creation with the help of attribute Internal Traffic Policy: Local ([#114466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114466), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network]
- Update the system-validators library to v1.8.0 ([#114060](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114060), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

UnversionedKubeletConfigMap. When this feature is enabled kubeadm will start using a new naming format for the ConfigMap where it stores the KubeletConfiguration structure. The old format included the Kubernetes version - "kube-system/kubelet-config-1.22", while the new format does not - "kube-system/kubelet-config". A similar formatting change is done for the related RBAC rules. The old format is now DEPRECATED and will be removed after the feature graduates to GA. When writing the ConfigMap kubeadm (init, upgrade...

- Kubeadm: stop applying the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule`...

- Added metric `apiserver_watch_events_total` that can be used to understand the number of watch events in the system. ([#78732](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78732), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
- Added metric `apiserver_watch_events_sizes` that can be used to estimate sizes of watch events in the system. ([#80477](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80477), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- kubelet now accepts `pid=<number>` in the `--system-reserved` and `--kube-reserved` options to ensure that the specified number of process IDs will be reserved for the system as a whole and for Kubernetes system daemons respectively.  Please reference `Kube Reserved` and `System Reserved` in `Reserve Compute Resources for System Daemons` in the Kubernetes documentation for general discussion of resource reservation.  To utilize this functionality,...

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