- A custom resource is considered to participate the spec/status convention if and only if the "CustomResourceSubresources" feature gate is turned on and the CRD has `.spec.subresources.status={}`.
- Fixed patch/update operations on multi-version custom resources ([#70087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70087), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* The formerly publicly-available cAdvisor web UI that the kubelet ran on port 4194 by default is now turned off by default. The flag configuring what port to run this UI on `--cadvisor-port` was deprecated in v1.10. Now the default is `--cadvisor-port=0`, in other words, to not run the web server. If you still need to run cAdvisor, the recommended way to...

- PodReadinessGate is now turned on by default. ([#67406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67406), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan)) Courtesy of SIG Node

* Advanced auditing is the default auditing mechanism at `v1beta1`. The new version introduces the following changes:

  * The `--audit-policy-file` option is required if the `AdvancedAuditing` feature is not explicitly turned off (`--feature-gates=AdvancedAuditing=false`) on the API server.
  * The audit log file defaults to JSON encoding when using the advanced auditing feature gate.

- OpenAPI V3 is turned on by default ([#109031](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109031), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))

  joining `etcd` members is now enabled by default. ([#120228](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120228), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- Fix Azure file migration e2e test failure when CSIMigration is turned on. ([#97877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97877), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

## 0.100.0

✨ Support for **Pydantic v2** ✨

Pydantic version 2 has the **core** re-written in **Rust** and includes a lot of improvements and features, for example:

* Improved **correctness** in corner cases.
* **Safer** types.
* Better **performance** and **less energy** consumption.
* Better **extensibility**.
* etc.