- Feature gate `CSIMigration` was locked to enabled. `CSIMigration` is GA now. The feature gate will be removed in `v1.27`. ([#110410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110410), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

- The feature gate was mentioned as `csiMigrationRBD` where it should have been `CSIMigrationRBD` to be in parity with other migration plugins. This release correct the same and keep it as `CSIMigrationRBD`.

## Notable Features
### Stable
- Graduate ScheduleDaemonSetPods to GA. (feature gate will be removed in 1.18) ([#82795](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82795), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))
- Graduate TaintNodesByCondition to GA in 1.17. (feature gate will be removed in 1.18) ([#82703](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82703), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

* The alpha Accelerators feature gate is deprecated and will be removed in v1.11. Please use device plugins ([https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/368](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/368)) instead. They can be enabled using the DevicePlugins feature gate. ([#57384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57384), [@mindprince](https://github.com/mindprince))

  //   in any namespaces.
  // (Beta) Using this field requires the AnyVolumeDataSource feature gate to be enabled.
  // (Alpha) Using the namespace field of dataSourceRef requires the CrossNamespaceVolumeDataSource feature gate to be enabled.
  // +optional
  optional TypedObjectReference dataSourceRef = 8;
}

* Use of the alpha initializers feature now requires enabling the `Initializers` feature gate. This feature gate is auto-enabled if the `Initialzers` admission plugin is enabled. ([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- a new `EndpointSliceProxying` feature gate has been added to control the use of EndpointSlices in kube-proxy. The EndpointSlice feature gate that used to control this behavior no longer affects kube-proxy. This feature has been disabled by default. ([#86137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86137), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))...

* Use of the alpha initializers feature now requires enabling the `Initializers` feature gate. This feature gate is automatically enabled if the `Initializers` admission plugin is enabled.([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436))

- Volume dynamic provisioning scheduling has been moved to beta, which means that the DynamicProvisioningScheduling alpha feature gate has been removed but the VolumeScheduling beta feature gate is still required for this feature. ([#67432](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67432), [@lichuqiang](https://github.com/lichuqiang)) Courtesy of SIG Apps, SIG Architecture, SIG Storage, and SIG Testing

- The GCERegionalPersistentDisk feature gate (GA in 1.13) can no longer be disabled. The feature gate will be removed in v1.17. ([#77412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77412), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))