## Notable Features
### Stable
- Graduate ScheduleDaemonSetPods to GA. (feature gate will be removed in 1.18) ([#82795](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82795), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))
- Graduate TaintNodesByCondition to GA in 1.17. (feature gate will be removed in 1.18) ([#82703](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82703), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

  // minReplicas is the lower limit for the number of replicas to which the autoscaler
  // can scale down.  It defaults to 1 pod.  minReplicas is allowed to be 0 if the
  // alpha feature gate HPAScaleToZero is enabled and at least one Object or External
  // metric is configured.  Scaling is active as long as at least one metric value is
  // available.
  // +optional
  optional int32 minReplicas = 2;

  // minReplicas is the lower limit for the number of replicas to which the autoscaler
  // can scale down.  It defaults to 1 pod.  minReplicas is allowed to be 0 if the
  // alpha feature gate HPAScaleToZero is enabled and at least one Object or External
  // metric is configured.  Scaling is active as long as at least one metric value is
  // available.
  // +optional
  optional int32 minReplicas = 2;

- The `StartupProbe` feature gate that is GA since v1.20 is unconditionally enabled, and can no longer be specified via the `--feature-gates` argument. ([#104168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104168), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov))

- This PR will introduce a feature gate CSIServiceAccountToken with two additional fields in `CSIDriverSpec`. ([#93130](https://github.com...

  //      - If failurePolicy=Fail, reject the request
  //      - If failurePolicy=Ignore, the error is ignored and the webhook is skipped
  //
  // This is an alpha feature and managed by the AdmissionWebhookMatchConditions feature gate.
  //
  // +patchMergeKey=name
  // +patchStrategy=merge
  // +listType=map
  // +listMapKey=name
  // +featureGate=AdmissionWebhookMatchConditions
  // +optional

- The `EndpointSliceTerminatingCondition` feature gate was graduated to GA. The gate is now locked and will be removed in v1.28. ([#113351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113351), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
- `DynamicKubeletConfig` feature gate has been removed from the API server.
  Dynamic kubelet reconfiguration now can't be used even when older nodes are still

* Add kubelet_node_name metrics. ([#72910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72910), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
* The HugePages feature gate has graduated to GA, and can no longer be disabled. The feature gate will be removed in v1.16 ([#72785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72785), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

  // minReplicas is the lower limit for the number of replicas to which the autoscaler
  // can scale down.  It defaults to 1 pod.  minReplicas is allowed to be 0 if the
  // alpha feature gate HPAScaleToZero is enabled and at least one Object or External
  // metric is configured.  Scaling is active as long as at least one metric value is
  // available.
  // +optional
  optional int32 minReplicas = 2;

  // checked against the backoffLimit. This field cannot be used in combination
  // with restartPolicy=OnFailure.
  //
  // This field is alpha-level. To use this field, you must enable the
  // `JobPodFailurePolicy` feature gate (disabled by default).
  // +optional
  optional PodFailurePolicy podFailurePolicy = 11;

  // Specifies the number of retries before marking this job failed.
  // Defaults to 6
  // +optional