- Added CEL runtime cost calculation into ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, matching the evaluation cost
  restrictions that already apply to CustomResourceDefinition.
  If rule evaluation uses more compute than the limit, the API server aborts the evaluation and the
  admission check that was being performed is aborted; the `failurePolicy` for the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy

* Set node external IP for azure node when disabling UseInstanceMetadata ([#60959](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60959), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixes potential deadlock when deleting CustomResourceDefinition for custom resources with finalizers ([#60542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60542), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### API Change

### **Kubernetes API**
#### User Provided Extensions
* [beta] ThirdPartyResource is deprecated. Please migrate to the successor, CustomResourceDefinition. For more information, see [Custom Resources](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/api-extension/custom-resources/) and [Migrate a ThirdPartyResource to CustomResourceDefinition](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/migrate-third-party-resource/).

* kubeadm: improved RequiredIPVSKernelModulesAvailable warning message ([#74033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74033), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))
* Add `nullable` support to CustomResourceDefinition OpenAPI validation schemata. ([#74804](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74804), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Fix spurious kube-apiserver log warnings related to openapi v3 merging when creating or modifying CustomResourceDefinition objects ([#109880](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109880), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- The metrics `etcd_request_duration_seconds` and `etcd_bookmark_counts` now differentiate by group resource instead of object type, allowing unique entries per `CustomResourceDefinition`, instead of grouping them all under `*unstructured.Unstructured`. ([#112042](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112042), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))

* Added block volume support to Cinder volume plugin. ([#64879](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64879), [@bertinatto](https://github.com/bertinatto))
* fixed incorrect OpenAPI schema for CustomResourceDefinition objects ([#65256](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65256), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

Beta versions in favour of the GA version of those APIs. All existing objects can be interacted with via general availability APIs. This removal includes beta versions of `ValidatingWebhookConfiguration`, `MutatingWebhookConfiguration`, `CustomResourceDefinition`, `APIService`, `TokenReview`, `SubjectAccessReview`, `CertificateSigningRequest`, `Lease`, `Ingress`, and `IngressClass` APIs. For the full list check out [Deprecated API Migration Guide](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/d...

- Fix CustomResourceDefinition status.storedVersions validation error messages. ([#119653](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119653), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts)) [SIG API Machinery]