### EndpointSlices are now enabled by default

EndpointSlices are an exciting new API that provides a scalable and extensible alternative to the Endpoints API. EndpointSlices track IP addresses, ports, readiness, and topology information for Pods backing a Service.

* Federation can now be deployed using the `federation/deploy/deploy.sh` script. This script does not depend on any of the development environment shell library/scripts. This is an alternative to the current `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts. Both the scripts are going to co-exist in this release, but the `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts might be removed in a future release in favor of `federation/deploy/deploy.sh`...

* Federation can now be deployed using the `federation/deploy/deploy.sh` script. This script does not depend on any of the development environment shell library/scripts. This is an alternative to the current `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts. Both the scripts are going to co-exist in this release, but the `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts might be removed in a future release in favor of `federation/deploy/deploy.sh`...

 - CephFS volume plugin (`kubernetes.io/cephfs`) has been deprecated in this release and will be removed in a subsequent release. The alternative is to use the CephFS CSI driver (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/) in your Kubernetes cluster. ([#118143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118143), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

- Expanded the on-disk kubelet credential provider configuration to allow an optional `tokenAttribute`...

### CronJob controller v2 is available through feature gate

### SIG Network

The main milestones for SIG Network this release are the graduation of IPVS-based load balancing and CoreDNS to general availability.

IPVS is an alternative approach to in-cluster load balancing that uses in-kernel hash tables rather than the previous iptables approach, while CoreDNS is a replacement for kube-dns for service discovery.

### SIG Node

FB1F          ; mapped                 ; 05F2 05B7     # 1.1  HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH YOD YOD PATAH
FB20          ; mapped                 ; 05E2          # 1.1  HEBREW LETTER ALTERNATIVE AYIN
FB21          ; mapped                 ; 05D0          # 1.1  HEBREW LETTER WIDE ALEF
FB22          ; mapped                 ; 05D3          # 1.1  HEBREW LETTER WIDE DALET

 - `kubeadm`: a separate "super-admin.conf" file is now deployed. The User in `admin.conf` is...

The code which implements them will be removed in a future release, so users of those need to start replacing the deprecated flags with some alternative solutions.

### Software Supply Chain SLSA Level 1 Compliance in the Kubernetes Release Process