- The deprecated `SecurityContextDeny` admission plugin, which has been deprecated since `v1.27`, has been removed. It is recommended to use the Pod Security Admission plugin instead, which has been available since v1.25. Refer to the [Kubernetes documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/#securitycontextdeny) for more information.

* Fix DeletingLoadBalancer event generation. ([#24833](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24833), [@a-robinson](https://github.com/a-robinson))
* GCE: Prefer preconfigured node tags for firewalls, if available ([#25148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25148), [@a-robinson](https://github.com/a-robinson))

* Ensure status is not changed during an update of PV, PVC, HPA objects ([#24924](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24924), [@mqliang](https://github.com/mqliang))
* GCE: Prefer preconfigured node tags for firewalls, if available ([#25148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25148), [@a-robinson](https://github.com/a-robinson))

  * Plugins

      * Introduces the ability to extend kubectl by adding third-party plugins. Developer preview, please refer to the documentation for instructions about how to use it. ([#37499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37499), [@fabianofranz](https://github.com/fabianofranz))

- Added a `--topology-manager-policy-options` flag to the kubelet to support fine tuning the topology manager policies. The first policy option, `prefer-closest-numa-nodes`, allows these policies to favor sets of NUMA nodes with shorter distance between nodes when making admission decisions. ([#112914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112914), [@PiotrProkop](https://github.com/PiotrProkop))...