- The label applied to control-plane nodes "node-role.kubernetes.io/master" is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release after a GA deprecation period.
  - Introduce a new label "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane" that will be applied in parallel to "node-role.kubernetes.io/master" until the removal of the "node-role.kubernetes.io/master" label.

            Each license is described by a {@code license} element, which
            is then described by additional elements.
            Projects should only list the license(s) that applies to the project
            and not the licenses that apply to dependencies.
            If multiple licenses are listed, it is assumed that the user can select
            any of them, not that they must accept all.

  These sorts of values can potentially cause security problems when different
  components interpret the same string as referring to different IP addresses
  (as in CVE-2021-29923).
  
  This tightening applies only to fields in built-in API kinds, and not to
  custom resource kinds, values in Kubernetes configuration files, or
  command-line arguments.
  

kubelet flags are no longer being set, and are being replaced by the more portable mechanism of the kubelet configuration file. The individual variables in the kube-env metadata entry were never meant to be a stable interface and this release note only applies if you are depending on them. ([#60020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60020), [@roberthbailey](https://github.com/roberthbailey))

* kube-proxy: feature gates are now specified as a map when provided via a JSON or YAML...

### SIG Windows

- Kubelet no longer attempts to sync iptables on non-Linux systems.. ([#67690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67690), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
- Kubelet no longer applies default hard evictions of nodefs.inodesFree on non-Linux systems. ([#67709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67709), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

(N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that is older than the `kubeadm` version (N-1 maximum) then the skew between the kubelet and control plane would become a maximum of N-2. ([#120825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120825), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))...

The seccomp (secure computing mode) support for Kubernetes has graduated to General Availability (GA). This feature can be used to increase the workload security by restricting the system calls for a Pod (applies to all containers) or single containers.

Technically this means that a first class `seccompProfile` field has been added to the Pod and Container `securityContext` objects:

```yaml
securityContext:

#### Forbid Extra Query (Cookie, Header) Parameters

Use Pydantic models to restrict extra values for `Query` parameters (also applies to `Header` and `Cookie` parameters).

To achieve it, use Pydantic's `model_config = {"extra": "forbid"}`:

```python
from typing import Annotated, Literal

from fastapi import FastAPI, Query

- Added a kube-proxy flag (`--iptables-localhost-nodeports`, default true) to allow disabling NodePort services on loopback addresses. Note: this only applies to iptables mode and ipv4. ([#108250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108250), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

* This change applies zone labels to vSphere Volumes automatically. The zone labels are visible on the PV: ([#72687](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72687), [@subramanian-neelakantan](https://github.com/subramanian-neelakantan))