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...

- Kubeadm: Remove the deprecated hyperkube image support in `v1beta3`. This implies removal of `ClusterConfiguration.UseHyperKubeImage.` ([#101537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101537), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Added E2E tests validating WindowsOptions.RunAsUserName. ([#79539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79539), [@bclau](https://github.com/bclau))
- `framework.ExpectNoError` no longer logs the error and instead relies on using the new `log.Fail` as gomega fail handler. ([#80253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80253), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

### Windows

* 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))

    *   Support for IPv6 Kubernetes control and data planes.
    *   Support for Kubernetes IPv6 cluster deployments using kubeadm.
    *   Support for the iptables kube-proxy backend using ip6tables.
    *   Relies on CNI 0.6.0 binaries for IPv6 pod networking.
    *   Adds IPv6 support for kube-dns using SRV records.
    *   Caveats

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  border-radius: 0;\n}\n\n// Explicitly remove focus outline in Chromium when it shouldn't be\n// visible (e.g. as result of mouse click or touch tap). It already\n// should be doing this automatically, but seems to currently be\n// confused and applies its very visible two-tone outline anyway.\n\nbutton:focus:not(:focus-visible) {\n  outline: 0;\n}\n\n// 1. Remove the margin in Firefox and Safari\n\ninput,\nbutton,\nselect,\noptgroup,\ntextarea {\n  margin: 0; // 1\n  font-family: inherit;\n  @include...

- Client-go: make generated CA certificates valid 1 hour in the past (NewSelfSignedCACert). Applies to CA certificates and other certificates generated by kubeadm. ([#118631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118631), [@champtar](https://github.com/champtar)) [SIG Auth]

- Fix log line in scheduler that inaccurately implies that volume binding has finalized ([#116049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116049), [@TommyStarK](https://github.com/TommyStarK)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]

  border-radius: 0;\n}\n\n// Explicitly remove focus outline in Chromium when it shouldn't be\n// visible (e.g. as result of mouse click or touch tap). It already\n// should be doing this automatically, but seems to currently be\n// confused and applies its very visible two-tone outline anyway.\n\nbutton:focus:not(:focus-visible) {\n  outline: 0;\n}\n\ninput,\nbutton,\nselect,\noptgroup,\ntextarea {\n  margin: 0; // Remove the margin in Firefox and Safari\n  font-family: inherit;\n  @include font-size(inherit);\n...