* Disable proxy to loopback and linklocal ([#71980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71980), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))
* kube-scheduler: restores ability to run without authentication configuration lookup permissions ([#71755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- No actions required. This is a small enhancement to a utility library. ([#92440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92440), [@luigibk](https://github.com/luigibk)) [SIG Network]

* Enable the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin (which is not enabled by default):
  * `--admission-control=...,PodSecurityPolicy,...`
* Use authorization to limit users' ability to use specific PodSecurityPolicy objects

**What is the impact?**

A user that is authorized to create pods can make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy, even ones they are not authorized to use.

### PID Limits graduates to General Availability

PID Limits features are now generally available on both `SupportNodePidsLimit` (node-to-pod PID isolation) and `SupportPodPidsLimit` (ability to limit PIDs per pod), after being enabled-by-default in beta stage for a year.

### API Priority and Fairness graduates to Beta

- Added ability for kubectl wait to wait on arbitary JSON path (#105776, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]

    - `extensions/v1beta1/daemonsets=true,extensions/v1beta1/deployments=true,extensions/v1beta1/replicasets=true,extensions/v1beta1/networkpolicies=true,extensions/v1beta1/podsecuritypolicies=true`

    The ability to serve these resources will be completely removed in v1.18. ([#70672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70672), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixes a regression on Kubelet restart and pod statuses. (#105560, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fixes kubelet memory regression in 1.22 (#105452, @liggitt) [SIG Node]
- Fixes the kubelet's ability to restart static pods (#105075, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Kube-proxy(ipvs mode) : delete stale conntrack UDP entries for loadbalancer ingress IP. (#105650, @VivekThrivikraman-est) [SIG Network]

* As of Kubernetes 1.15, the SupportNodePidsLimit feature introduced as alpha in Kubernetes 1.14 is now beta, and the ability to utilize it is enabled by default.  It is no longer necessary to set the feature gate `SupportNodePidsLimit=true`.  In all other respects, this functionality behaves as it did in Kubernetes 1.14. ([#76221](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76221),...

* **[beta]** Node Problem Detector is beta (v0.3.0) now. New
  features added into node-problem-detector:v0.3.0:
  - Add support for journald.
  - The ability to monitor any system daemon logs. Previously only kernel
    logs were supported.
  - The ability to be deployed and run as a native daemon.
* **[alpha]** Critical Pods: When feature gate "ExperimentalCriticalPodAnnotation" is

- Added to `MutableFeatureGate` the ability to override the default setting of feature gates, to allow default-enabling a feature on a component-by-component basis instead of for all affected components simultaneously. ([#122647](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122647), [@ben...