- [`KT-63363`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-63363) Kotlin Gradle Plugin: `KotlinNativeHostSpecificMetadataArtifact` breaks configuration cache, implicitly includes output file as configuration cache input
- [`KT-63742`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-63742) Gradle wrongly caches Kotlin/Native compiler flags

### Tools. JPS

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kube-controller-manager`:

  * `replication-controller-lookup-cache-size`
  * `replicaset-lookup-cache-size`
  * `daemonset-lookup-cache-size`

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the server to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the server to abort the startup.

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

- Added `apiserver_envelope_encryption_dek_cache_filled` to measure number of records in data encryption key (DEK) cache. ([#119878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119878), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh))

- 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

  - *apiserver_cache_list_total*: Counter of LIST requests served from watch cache, broken down by resource_prefix and index_name
  - *apiserver_cache_list_fetched_objects_total*: Counter of objects read from watch cache in the course of serving a LIST request, broken down by resource_prefix and index_name

    String CRAWLER_DOCUMENT_CACHE_ENABLED = "crawler.document.cache.enabled";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. 2621440 */
    String CRAWLER_DOCUMENT_CACHE_MAX_SIZE = "crawler.document.cache.max.size";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. text/html */
    String CRAWLER_DOCUMENT_CACHE_SUPPORTED_MIMETYPES = "crawler.document.cache.supported.mimetypes";

 - The flag `--experimental-patches` is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. You can migrate to using the new flag `--patches`. Add a new field `{Init|Join}Configuration.patches.directory` that can be used for the same purpose. For `init` and `join` it is now recommended that you migrate to configure patches via `{Init|Join}Configuration.patches.directory`. For the time being, these flags can be mixed with `--config`, but that...

- Removed deprecated kubectl.kubernetes.io/default-logs-container support ([#109254](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109254), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Renamed `apiserver_watch_cache_watch_cache_initializations_total` to `apiserver_watch_cache_initializations_total` ([#109579](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109579), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

* 👷 Remove pip cache for Smokeshow as it depends on a requirements.txt. PR [#5700](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5700) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
* 💚 Fix pip cache for Smokeshow. PR [#5697](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5697) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

  - Regenerate list of EC2 instances
  - Fix pricing endpoint in AWS China Region
  
  ### Azure
  - Add optional jitter on initial VMSS VM cache refresh, keep the refreshes spread over time
  - Serve from cache for the whole period of ongoing throttling
  - Fix unwanted VMSS VMs cache invalidations
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating