- Added a new scheduler metric, `pod_scheduling_sli_duration_seconds`,...

### SIG Cloud Provider

- Added Windows Server, Version 2025 for windows-servercore-cache test image ([#130935](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130935), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Testing and Windows]
- Added metrics to expose the main known reasons for resource alignment errors ([#129950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129950), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Migrated the main kube-controller-manager binary to use [contextual logging](https://k8s.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/system-logs/#contextual-logging). ([#116529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116529), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

### Etcd v3.5.[0-2] data corruption

Data corruption issue was found in etcd v3.5.0 release that was shipped with 1.22 Kubernetes release. Please read up-to-date [production recommendations for etcd](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/main/CHANGELOG).

## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

all API calls had to fetch key/value stored in secret and use it to authenticate/authorize these operations. With this change API calls receive key/value as a input parameter so they not need to know where and how credentials were stored and fetched. Main goal was to make these API calls CO (Container Orchestrator) agnostic.  ([#60118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60118), [@sbezverk](https://github.com/sbezverk))

* StorageOS volume plugin has been updated to support mount...

* Fix resync goroutine leak in ListAndWatch ([#35672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35672), [@tatsuhiro-t](https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t))

#### client-go

`v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration`. The new patch target is called `kubeletconfiguration` (e.g. patch file `kubeletconfiguration+json.json`).This makes it possible to apply node specific KubeletConfiguration options during `init`, `join` and `upgrade`, while the main `KubeletConfiguration` that is passed to `init` as part of the `--config` file can still act as the global stored in the cluster `KubeletConfiguration`. ([#110405](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110405), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))...

In addition, the NodeRestriction admission plugin now prevents kubelets from modifying taints on their Node API objects, making it easier to keep track of which nodes should be in use.

### SIG CLI

### Documentation