- The scheduler's assumed...

*   Added support for adding a Windows node ([#53553](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53553),[ @bsteciuk](https://github.com/bsteciuk))

#### **Juju**

*   Added support for SAN entries in the master node certificate. ([#54234](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54234),[ @hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346))

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Client-go now exposes two new metrics to monitor the client-go logic that
  generate http.Transports for the clients.
  
  - `rest_client_transport_cache_entries` is a gauge metric
  with the number of existing entries in the internal cache
  
  - `rest_client_transport_create_calls_total` is a counter
  that increments each time a new transport is created, storing

* kubectl: improves compatibility with older servers when creating/updating API objects ([#61949](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61949), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Bound cloud allocator to 10 retries with 100 ms delay between retries. ([#61375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61375), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

* fix smb unmount issue on Windows ([#75087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75087), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixes segmentation fault issue with Protobuf library when log entries are deeply nested. ([#77224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77224), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))

* Fix a bug that prevents client-go metrics from being registered in prometheus in multiple components. ([#53434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53434), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Webhook always retries connection reset error. ([#53947](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53947), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

* If a required flag is not provided to a command, the user will only see the required flag error message, instead of the entire usage menu. ([#86693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86693), [@sallyom](https://github.com/sallyom))

- Scheduler's assumed...

## Changelog since v1.23.16

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ...