the high availability use cases have been given priority for 1.15.

kubeadm, the cluster lifecycle building block, continues to receive features and stability work required for bootstrapping production clusters efficiently. kubeadm has promoted high availability (HA) capability to beta, allowing users to use the familiar `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join` commands to [configure and deploy an HA control plane](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/high-availability/)....

### Apps

The core workloads API, which is composed of the DaemonSet, Deployment, ReplicaSet, and StatefulSet kinds, has been promoted to GA stability in the apps/v1 group version. As such, the apps/v1beta2 group version is deprecated, and all new code should use the kinds in the apps/v1 group version.

### Auth

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* The Sysctls experimental feature has been promoted to beta (enabled by default via the `Sysctls` feature flag). PodSecurityPolicy and Pod objects now have fields for specifying and controlling sysctls. Alpha sysctl annotations will be ignored by 1.11+ kubelets. All alpha sysctl annotations in existing...

### Storage capacity tracking

  - [beta] PodDisruptionBudget has been promoted to beta, can be used to safely drain nodes while respecting application SLO's ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/safely-drain-node/)) ([kubernetes/features#85](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/85))

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<p>
A field or <a href="#Method_declarations">method</a> <code>f</code> of an
embedded field in a struct <code>x</code> is called <i>promoted</i> if
<code>x.f</code> is a legal <a href="#Selectors">selector</a> that denotes
that field or method <code>f</code>.
</p>

<p>
Promoted fields act like ordinary fields
of a struct except that they cannot be used as field names in

### Serverside Apply - Beta 2

Server-side Apply was promoted to Beta in 1.16, but is now introducing a second Beta in 1.18. This new version will track and manage changes to fields of all new Kubernetes objects, allowing you to know what changed your resources and when.

  Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29923 ([#104368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104368), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))
- StatefulSet `minReadySeconds` is promoted to beta. ([#104045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104045), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))

- PreFilter extension in the scheduler framework now returns not only status but also PreFilterResult ([#108648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108648), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))
- Promoted graceful shutdown based on pod priority to beta ([#107986](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107986), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming))