* Bump metadata agent version to 0.2-0.0.21-1.
    * Expand the metadata agent's access to all API groups.
    * Remove metadata agent config maps in favor of command line flags.
    * Update the metadata agent's liveness probe to a new /healthz handler.
    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.

  - the node label `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` which excludes a node from cloud load balancers (using Service Type=LoadBalancer) is deprecated in favor of `node.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer`. Support for `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` will be removed in v1.18.

- Features:

### 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.

### Generic Ephemeral Volume feature graduates to GA

Related to this topic, the in-tree Azure and GCP authentication plugins have been [deprecated](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102181) in favor of out-of-tree implementations.

### Server-side Apply graduates to GA