- The kube-apiserver's healthz now takes in an optional query parameter which allows you to disable health checks from causing healthz failures.  ([#70676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70676), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- Graduating `pending_pods`, `preemption_attempts_total`, `preemption_victims` and `schedule_attempts_total` metrics to stable. Also `e2e_scheduling_duration_seconds` is renamed to `scheduling_attempt_duration_seconds` and the latter is graduated to stable. (#105941, @rezakrimi) [SIG Instrumentation, Scheduling and Testing]

- [`KT-58676`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58676) Enable default Kotlin Target Hierarchy by default
- [`KT-61056`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-61056) Native-shared source sets don't receive dependency on a commonMain of 1.9.20 stdlib
- [`KT-58712`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58712) Enable commonization by default if the CocoaPods plugin provided the dependencies that should be commonized

- `kubectl debug` is able to create ephemeral containers in pre-1.22 clusters with the `EphemeralContainers` feature enabled. Note that versions of kubectl prior to 1.22 are unable to create ephemeral containers in clusters version 1.22 and greater due to an API change. ([#103292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103292), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))...

    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze streams based on local resource id.
    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.
    * Disable timestamp adjustment in logs to optimize performance.
    * Reduce logging agent buffer chunk limit to 512k to optimize performance.

  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4954: Drop support for using gh: as a host (e.g. gh:kubernetes-sigs/kustomize). We were unable to find any usage of or basis for this and believe it may have been targeting a custom gitconfig shorthand syntax. ([#116598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116598), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG CLI]

pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), const EV_DELETE ideal-int
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), const EV_DISABLE = 8
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), const EV_DISABLE ideal-int
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), const EV_DISPATCH = 128
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), const EV_DISPATCH ideal-int
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), const EV_ENABLE = 4
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), const EV_ENABLE ideal-int
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), const EV_EOF = 32768

    - [Promoted endPort in Network Policy to Stable](#promoted-endport-in-network-policy-to-stable)
    - [Promoted Local Ephemeral Storage Capacity Isolation to Stable](#promoted-local-ephemeral-storage-capacity-isolation-to-stable)
    - [Promoted core CSI Migration to Stable](#promoted-core-csi-migration-to-stable)
    - [Promoted CSI Ephemeral Volume to Stable](#promoted-csi-ephemeral-volume-to-stable)

- Command to start network proxy changes from 'KUBE_ENABLE_EGRESS_VIA_KONNECTIVITY_SERVICE ./cluster/kube-up.sh' to 'KUBE_ENABLE_KONNECTIVITY_SERVICE=true ./hack/kube-up.sh' ([#92669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92669), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Changelog since v1.8.0-alpha.3

### Action Required

* New GCE or GKE clusters created with `cluster/kube-up.sh` will not enable the legacy ABAC authorizer by default. If you would like to enable the legacy ABAC authorizer, export ENABLE_LEGACY_ABAC=true before running `cluster/kube-up.sh`. ([#51367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51367), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))