- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.20.1 ([#115828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115828), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]
- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.20.2 ([#116404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116404), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

- Update debian-base, debian-iptables, setcap images to pick up CVE fixes
  - Debian-base to v1.9.0
  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7
  - setcap to v2.0.4 (#106147, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Fixes hostpath storage e2e tests within SELinux enabled env (#105787, @Elbehery) [SIG Testing]

### Bug or Regression

#### **Cloud Provider Integration**

*   Added `cloud-controller-manager` to `hyperkube`. This is useful as a number of deployment tools run all of the kubernetes components from the `hyperkube `image/binary. It also makes testing easier as a single binary/image can be built and pushed quickly.  ([#54197](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54197),[ @colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

* Fixes a hang on kubelet startup when using systemd cgroup driver of libcontainer. ([#61926](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61926), [@filbranden](https://github.com/filbranden))
* Prevent 1.10 e2es testing deprecated CAdvisorPort in v1.11 ([#64184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64184), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.21.7
  - update setcap/debian-base to bookworm-v1.0.1
  - update distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 ([#123228](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123228), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fixed kubelet creating extra sandbox for pods with RestartPolicyOnFailure after all containers succeeded ([#92614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92614), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Node and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Client-go: resolves an issue with informers falling back to full list requests when timeouts are encountered, rather than re-establishing a watch. ([#89976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89976), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

In-tree cloud provider bug fixes and improvements included:
- Adding initial Zones support to the provider using vSphere Tags
- Improving the testing harness for the cloud provider by introducing vcsim for automated testing
- Fixing a bug that was preventing updates from 1.10 to 1.11

### SIG Scalability

[SIG Scalability][] is responsible for scalability testing, measuring and
improving system performance, and answering questions related to scalability.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Scalability focused on automating large cluster
scalability testing in a continuous integration (CI) environment. The SIG
defined a concrete process for scalability testing, created

### SIG OpenStack

SIG-OpenStack continued to build out testing, with eleven acceptance tests covering a wide-range of scenarios and use-cases. During the 1.11 cycle our reporting back to test-grid has qualified the OpenStack cloud provider as a gating job for the Kubernetes release.