- The DRA device taints and toleration feature received a separate feature gate, `DRADeviceTaintRules`, which controlled support for `DeviceTaintRules`. This allowed disabling it while keeping `DRADeviceTaints` enabled so that tainting via `ResourceSlices` continued to work. ([#135068](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135068), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Node, Scheduling...

### Other notable changes

* Remove cpu limits for dns pod to avoid CPU starvation ([#33227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33227), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))
* Resolves x509 verification issue with masters dialing nodes when started with --kubelet-certificate-authority ([#33141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33141), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Allow secure access to apiserver from Admission Controllers ([#31491](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31491), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
* Resolves x509 verification issue with masters dialing nodes when started with --kubelet-certificate-authority ([#33141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33141), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))