- EndpointSlice controller is now less likely to emit FailedToUpdateEndpointSlices events. ([#99345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99345), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Count pod overhead against an entity's ResourceQuota ([#99600](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99600), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]
- EndpointSlice controller is now less likely to emit FailedToUpdateEndpointSlices events. ([#100146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100146), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

There is no intermediate action required by end-users, because `v1` and `v1alpha2` do not differ in their implementation.
It is likely that `v1alpha2` will be removed in one of the future Kubernetes releases to be able to develop `v1`.

### Structured logging graduate to Beta

- EndpointSlice controller is now less likely to emit FailedToUpdateEndpointSlices events. ([#100113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100113), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Fixes a problem with 63-second or 1-second connection delays with some VXLAN-based
  network plugins which was first widely noticed in 1.16 (though some users saw it
  earlier than that, possibly only with specific network plugins). If you were previously
  using ethtool to disable checksum offload on your primary network interface, you should

- Introduce support for CEL optionals (see [CEL spec proposal 246](https://github.com/google/cel-spec/wiki/proposal-246)).
  This feature will not be fully enabled until a future Kubernetes release (likely to be v1.29), but is added in v1.28 to enable
  safe rollback on downgrade. ([#118339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118339), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud Provider and Testing]

 app/v1beta2 group version, because the controllers in the workloads API do not handle
 selector mutation in
 a consistent way. This restriction may be lifted in the future, but
 it is likely that that selectors will remain immutable after the move to v1.
 You can continue to use code that depends on mutable selectors by calling
 the apps/v1beta1 API in this release, but you should start planning for code

- Fixes a problem with 63-second or 1-second connection delays with some VXLAN-based
  network plugins which was first widely noticed in 1.16 (though some users saw it
  earlier than that, possibly only with specific network plugins). If you were previously
  using ethtool to disable checksum offload on your primary network interface, you should

are still holding on to those resources. This stricter handling may surface to end users as pod rejections when creating pods that are scheduled to mostly full nodes that have other terminating pods holding the resources the new pods need. The most likely error would be a pod set to `Failed` phase with reason set to `OutOfCpu` or `OutOfMemory`, but any resource on the node that has some fixed limit (including persistent volume counts on cloud nodes, exclusive CPU cores, or unique hardware devices)...