- The deprecated feature gates `CSIDriverRegistry`, `BlockVolume` and `CSIBlockVolume` are now unconditionally enabled and can no longer be specified in component invocations. ([#98021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98021), [@gavinfish](https://github.com/gavinfish)) [SIG Storage]

### SIG Autoscaling

- Horizontal Pod Autoscaler default update interval has been increased from 30s to 15s, improving HPA reaction time for metric changes. ([#68021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68021), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

- github.com/containerd/ttrpc: [v1.2.2 → v1.2.5](https://github.com/containerd/ttrpc/compare/v1.2.2...v1.2.5)
- github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: [v1.0.21 → v1.0.24](https://github.com/coredns/corefile-migration/compare/v1.0.21...v1.0.24)
- github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin: [v0.2.4 → v0.3.4](https://github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin/compare/v0.2.4...v0.3.4)

    * Remove deprecated and unmaintained openstack-heat kube-up.sh.  ([#58021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58021), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

    * Remove deprecated vagrant kube-up.sh. ([#58118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58118),[@roberthbailey](https://github.com/roberthbailey))

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: [v1.0.21 → v1.0.24](https://github.com/coredns/corefile-migration/compare/v1.0.21...v1.0.24)
- github.com/coreos/etcd: [v3.3.13+incompatible → v3.3.10+incompatible](https://github.com/coreos/etcd/compare/v3.3.13...v3.3.10)

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### Kubernetes Node system swap support

#### Removed
- github.com/cloudflare/cfssl: 56268a6
- github.com/coreos/bbolt: v1.3.3
- github.com/coreos/rkt: v1.30.0
- github.com/globalsign/mgo: eeefdec
- github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go: v1.0.21
- github.com/heketi/rest: aa6a652
- github.com/heketi/utils: 435bc5b
- github.com/pborman/uuid: v1.2.0

# v1.17.0-rc.2

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

## Downloads for v1.17.0-rc.2

- golang.org/x/tools: v0.1.12 → v0.2.0
- google.golang.org/grpc: v1.47.0 → v1.49.0
- google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.28.0 → v1.28.1
- k8s.io/gengo: c02415c → c0856e2
- k8s.io/klog/v2: v2.70.1 → v2.80.1
- k8s.io/kube-openapi: 67bda5d → 172d655
- k8s.io/system-validators: v1.7.0 → v1.8.0
- k8s.io/utils: ee6ede2 → 1a15be2
- sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client: v0.0.32 → v0.0.33

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: [v1.0.21 → v1.0.23](https://github.com/coredns/corefile-migration/compare/v1.0.21...v1.0.23)
- github.com/coreos/etcd: [v3.3.13+incompatible → v3.3.10+incompatible](https://github.com/coreos/etcd/compare/v3.3.13...v3.3.10)