Kubernetes Project Update

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Kubernetes moves from four to three releases a year with ~15-week cycles, an opt-in enhancement model, and a rising count of landed enhancements (22, 38, 34, 42, 51 across recent releases). The repo drops removed Bazel to lower contributor friction. Major deprecations include dockershim deprecated and pod security policies deprecated with multi-release windows. New or graduated features: structured logging beta, cronjobs stable, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 beta, graceful node shutdown beta, and persistent volume health metrics alpha, plus revived community meetings and annual SIG reports.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:08Enhancements
3. 3:44Evolution of Process
4. 6:49New Release Schedule
5. 8:37Quality of Life Improvements
6. 10:24Optin Process
7. 12:24Community Meetings
8. 13:11Deprecations

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