- The deprecated --storage-versions flag has been removed. The storage versions will always be the default value built-in the kube-apiserver binary. ([#67678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67678), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

- Kubeadm: perform additional dockershim cleanup. Treat all container runtimes as remote by using the flag "--container-runtime=remote", given dockershim was removed in 1.24 and given...

#### Network

- The deprecated flag `--conntrack-max` has been removed from kube-proxy. Users of this flag should switch to `--conntrack-min` and `--conntrack-max-per-core` instead. ([#78399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78399), [@rikatz](https://github.com/rikatz))

## Action Required

- etcd2 as a backend is deprecated and support will be removed in Kubernetes 1.13.

    These 2 flags can be used only for dual-stack clusters. For non dual-stack clusters, continue to use  `--node-cidr-mask-size` flag to configure the mask size.

    The default node cidr mask size for IPv6 was 24 which is now changed to 64. ([#79993](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79993), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))

## Changelog since v1.7.0

### Other notable changes

* Added new flag to `kubeadm init`: --node-name, that lets you specify the name of the Node object that will be created ([#48594](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48594), [@GheRivero](https://github.com/GheRivero))

Windows) when passing a value to the `--container-runtime-endpoint` kubelet flag. This flag's value is taken from the kubeadm configuration `criSocket` field or the `--cri-socket` CLI flag. Automatically add a missing URL scheme to the user configuration in memory, but warn them that they should also update their configuration on disk manually. During `kubeadm upgrade apply/node` mutate the `/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env` file on disk and the `kubeadm.alpha.kubernetes.io/cri-socket` annotation...

* Fixed an issue where commas were not accepted in --from-literal flags for the creation of secrets. ([#35191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35191), [@SamiHiltunen](https://github.com/SamiHiltunen))
  * Passing multiple values separated by a comma in a single --from-literal flag is no longer supported. Please use multiple --from-literal flags to provide multiple values.

- `kube-apiserver`: added `--authorization-config` flag for reading a configuration file containing an `apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1 AuthorizationConfiguration` object. The `--authorization-config` flag is mutually exclusive with `--authorization-modes` and `--authorization-webhook-*` flags. The `alpha` `StructuredAuthorizationConfiguration` feature flag must be enabled for `--authorization-config` to be specified. ([#120154](https://github.com/kub...

- Kubeadm: add the "--cluster-name" flag to the "kubeadm alpha kubeconfig user" to allow configuring the cluster name in the generated kubeconfig file ([#93992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93992), [@prabhu43](https://github.com/prabhu43)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]