* Federation can now be deployed using the `federation/deploy/deploy.sh` script. This script does not depend on any of the development environment shell library/scripts. This is an alternative to the current `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts. Both the scripts are going to co-exist in this release, but the `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts might be removed in a future release in favor of `federation/deploy/deploy.sh`...

 - CephFS volume plugin (`kubernetes.io/cephfs`) has been deprecated in this release and will be removed in a subsequent release. The alternative is to use the CephFS CSI driver (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/) in your Kubernetes cluster. ([#118143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118143), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

- Expanded the on-disk kubelet credential provider configuration to allow an optional `tokenAttribute`...

### CronJob controller v2 is available through feature gate

303C          ; valid                                  # 3.2  MASU MARK
303D          ; valid                  ;      ; NV8    # 3.2  PART ALTERNATION MARK
303E          ; valid                  ;      ; NV8    # 3.0  IDEOGRAPHIC VARIATION INDICATOR
303F          ; valid                  ;      ; NV8    # 1.1  IDEOGRAPHIC HALF FILL SPACE

 - `kubeadm`: a separate "super-admin.conf" file is now deployed. The User in `admin.conf` is...

The code which implements them will be removed in a future release, so users of those need to start replacing the deprecated flags with some alternative solutions.

### Software Supply Chain SLSA Level 1 Compliance in the Kubernetes Release Process

Repetition  = "{" Expression "}" .
</pre>

<p>
Productions are expressions constructed from terms and the following
operators, in increasing precedence:
</p>
<pre class="grammar">
|   alternation
()  grouping
[]  option (0 or 1 times)
{}  repetition (0 to n times)
</pre>

<p>
Lowercase production names are used to identify lexical (terminal) tokens.

- New metrics: `apiserver_kube_aggregator_x509_missing_san_total` and `apiserver_webhooks_x509_missing_san_total`. This metric measures a number of connections to webhooks/aggregated API servers that use certificates without Subject Alternative Names. It being non-zero is a warning sign that these connections will stop functioning in the future since Golang is going to deprecate x509 certificate subject Common Names for server hostname verification. ([#95396](https://github.com/kubern...

- Remove the deprecated flag `--experimental-check-node-capabilities-before-mount`. With CSI now GA, there is a better alternative. Remove any use of  `--experimental-check-node-capabilities-before-mount` from your kubelet scripts or manifests. ([#104732](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104732), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))