- Added `auditAnnotations` to `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy`, enabling CEL to be used to add audit annotations to request audit events.

  // lowered if there are no expansion operations in progress and if the actual volume capacity
  // is equal or lower than the requested capacity.
  // This is an alpha field and requires enabling RecoverVolumeExpansionFailure feature.
  // +featureGate=RecoverVolumeExpansionFailure
  // +optional
  map<string, k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.api.resource.Quantity> allocatedResources = 5;

- [`KT-61426`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-61426) Enabling compilation via the build tools API may cause high metaspace usage

#### Fixes

- [`KT-61359`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-61359) "Unresolved reference: platform" when enabling Gradle configuration cache

* Add a label which prevents a node from being added to a cloud load balancer ([#53146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53146), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
* Add a new feature gate for enabling an alpha annotation which, if present, excludes the annotated node from being added to a service load balancers. ([#54644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54644), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

- Existing InTree AzureFile PVs which don't have a secret namespace defined will now work properly after enabling CSI migration - the namespace will be obtained from ClaimRef. ([#108000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108000), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

- Existing InTree AzureFile PVs which don't have a secret namespace defined will now work properly after enabling CSI migration - the namespace will be obtained from ClaimRef. ([#108000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108000), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

## Dependencies

- Added `UserNamespacesPodSecurityStandards` feature gate to enable user namespace support for Pod Security Standards.
  Enabling this feature will modify all Pod Security Standard rules to allow setting: `spec[.*].securityContext.[runAsNonRoot,runAsUser]`.

- Introduced `v1alpha1` API for validating admission policies, enabling extensible admission control via CEL expressions (KEP  3488: CEL for Admission Control). To use, enable the `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` feature gate and the `admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1alpha1` API via `--runtime-config`. ([#113314](https://g...

- Existing InTree AzureFile PVs which don't have a secret namespace defined will now work properly after enabling CSI migration - the namespace will be obtained from ClaimRef. ([#108000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108000), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar))

- Marked the feature gate `ExperimentalHostUserNamespaceDefaulting` as deprecated.