* Disable proxy to loopback and linklocal ([#71980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71980), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))
* kube-scheduler: restores ability to run without authentication configuration lookup permissions ([#71755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### PID Limits graduates to General Availability

PID Limits features are now generally available on both `SupportNodePidsLimit` (node-to-pod PID isolation) and `SupportPodPidsLimit` (ability to limit PIDs per pod), after being enabled-by-default in beta stage for a year.

### API Priority and Fairness graduates to Beta

- Added ability for kubectl wait to wait on arbitary JSON path (#105776, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]

    - `extensions/v1beta1/daemonsets=true,extensions/v1beta1/deployments=true,extensions/v1beta1/replicasets=true,extensions/v1beta1/networkpolicies=true,extensions/v1beta1/podsecuritypolicies=true`

    The ability to serve these resources will be completely removed in v1.18. ([#70672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70672), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixes a regression on Kubelet restart and pod statuses. (#105560, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fixes kubelet memory regression in 1.22 (#105452, @liggitt) [SIG Node]
- Fixes the kubelet's ability to restart static pods (#105075, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Kube-proxy(ipvs mode) : delete stale conntrack UDP entries for loadbalancer ingress IP. (#105650, @VivekThrivikraman-est) [SIG Network]

* As of Kubernetes 1.15, the SupportNodePidsLimit feature introduced as alpha in Kubernetes 1.14 is now beta, and the ability to utilize it is enabled by default.  It is no longer necessary to set the feature gate `SupportNodePidsLimit=true`.  In all other respects, this functionality behaves as it did in Kubernetes 1.14. ([#76221](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76221),...

* **[beta]** Node Problem Detector is beta (v0.3.0) now. New
  features added into node-problem-detector:v0.3.0:
  - Add support for journald.
  - The ability to monitor any system daemon logs. Previously only kernel
    logs were supported.
  - The ability to be deployed and run as a native daemon.
* **[alpha]** Critical Pods: When feature gate "ExperimentalCriticalPodAnnotation" is

* Fixes an issue where the resourceVersion of an object in a DELETE watch event was not the resourceVersion of the delete itself, but of the last update to the object. This could disrupt the ability of clients clients to re-establish watches properly. ([#58547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

Pid Limiting is Graduating to Beta ([#757](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/757))

- Prevents a pod from starving pid resource
- Ability to isolate pid resources pod-to-pod and node-to-pod
kubernetes/kubernetes: [#73651](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73651)