- kube-apiserver `--egress-selector-config-file` files were validated strictly (EnableStrict). Duplicate and unknown fields in the configuration will now cause an error. ([#128011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128011), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3))...

- Fixed a data race in kubelet image manager that can cause static pod workers to silently stop working. ([#88915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88915), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG Node]

- Fixed a data race in kubelet image manager that can cause static pod workers to silently stop working. ([#88915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88915), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG Node]

- Fixed a data race in kubelet image manager that can cause static pod workers to silently stop working. ([#88915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88915), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG Node]

* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

* fix incorrect prometheus azure metrics ([#77722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77722), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed a bug in the apiserver storage that could cause just-added finalizers to be ignored on an immediately following delete request, leading to premature deletion. ([#77619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77619), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

* Resolves bottleneck in internal API server communication that can cause increased goroutines and degrade API Server performance ([#80465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80465), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))

  - [Changelog since v1.23.10](#changelog-since-v12310)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-1)
    - [CVE-2022-3172: Aggregated API server can cause clients to be redirected (SSRF)](#cve-2022-3172-aggregated-api-server-can-cause-clients-to-be-redirected-ssrf)
    - [CVE-2021-25749: <code>runAsNonRoot</code> logic bypass for Windows containers](#cve-2021-25749-runasnonroot-logic-bypass-for-windows-containers)

needed. A future release will make the `ErrWaitTimeout` error private and callers must use `Interrupted()` instead. If you are returning `ErrWaitTimeout` from your own methods, switch to creating a location specific `cause err` and pass it to the new method `wait.ErrorInterrupted(cause) error` which will ensure `Interrupted()` returns true for your loop. 
  
  The `wait.NewExponentialBackoffManager` and `wait.NewJitteringBackoffManager` functions have been marked as deprecated.  Callers...

* fix detach azure disk issue due to dirty cache ([#71495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71495), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixes issue where an apiserver on 1.9 and controller-manager on 1.10 can cause volume provisioning and binding to fail. ([#71286](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71286), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))