### HorizontalPodAutoscaler v2 graduates to GA

Version 2 of the HorizontalPodAutoscaler API graduates to stable in the 1.23 release. The HorizontalPodAutoscaler `autoscaling/v2beta2` API is deprecated in favor of the new `autoscaling/v2` API, which the Kubernetes project recommends for all use cases.

This release does *not* deprecate the v1 HorizontalPodAutoscaler API.

- Autoscaling/v2beta1 is deprecated in favor of autoscaling/v2beta2 ([#90463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90463), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG Autoscaling]

- Added Windows support for InPlace Pod Vertical Scaling feature. ([#112599](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112599), [@fabi200123](https://github.com/fabi200123)) [SIG Autoscaling, Node, Scalability, Scheduling and Windows]

- Remove support for building Kubernetes with bazel. ([#99561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99561), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Architecture, Auth, Autoscaling, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Network, Node, Release, Scalability, Scheduling, Storage, Testing and Windows]

  - [New Features](#new-features)
  - [Release Notes From SIGs](#release-notes-from-sigs)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery-1)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth-1)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling)
    - [SIG AWS](#sig-aws-1)
    - [SIG Azure](#sig-azure-1)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli-1)
    - [SIG Cloud Provider](#sig-cloud-provider-1)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle-1)

      - [**Other**](#other)
    - [**Apps**](#apps-1)
    - [**Auth**](#auth-3)
      - [**Audit**](#audit-1)
      - [**RBAC**](#rbac)
      - [**Other**](#other-1)
      - [**GCE**](#gce)
    - [**Autoscaling**](#autoscaling)
    - [**AWS**](#aws-1)
    - [**Azure**](#azure-1)
    - [**CLI**](#cli-1)
      - [**Kubectl**](#kubectl)
    - [**Cluster Lifecycle**](#cluster-lifecycle-3)
      - [**API Server**](#api-server)

- Made kube-proxy Windows service control manager integration (`--windows-service`) configurable in v1alpha1 component configuration via `windowsRunAsService` field. ([#126072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126072), [@aro...

  
  ### Packet
  - Allow empty nodepools
  - Add support for multiple nodepools
  - Add pricing support
  
  ## Image
  Image: `k8s.gcr.io/autoscaling/cluster-autoscaler:v1.20.0` ([#97012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97012), [@towca](https://github.com/towca)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Autoscaling

  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-10)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery-1)
    - [SIG Apps](#sig-apps)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth-1)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling)
    - [SIG Azure](#sig-azure)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli-1)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle-1)
    - [SIG GCP](#sig-gcp)
    - [SIG Instrumentation](#sig-instrumentation-1)