### Feature

  * Add secretbox and AES-CBC encryption modes to at rest encryption. AES-CBC is considered superior to AES-GCM because it is resistant to nonce-reuse attacks, and secretbox uses Poly1305 and XSalsa20. ([#46916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46916), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

* Bug fixes:

- The API server now re-uses data encryption keys while the kms v2 plugin key ID is stable.  Data encryption keys are still randomly generated on server start but an atomic counter is used to prevent nonce collisions. ([#116155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116155), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

* Add secretbox and AES-CBC encryption modes to at rest encryption.  AES-CBC is considered superior to AES-GCM because it is resistant to nonce-reuse attacks, and secretbox uses Poly1305 and XSalsa20. ([#46916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46916), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

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A <i>string type</i> represents the set of string values.
A string value is a (possibly empty) sequence of bytes.
The number of bytes is called the length of the string and is never negative.
Strings are immutable: once created,
it is impossible to change the contents of a string.
The predeclared string type is <code>string</code>;
it is a <a href="#Type_definitions">defined type</a>.
</p>

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- kubectl now loads config file once and uses persistent client config ([#71117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71117), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

## Changelog since v1.18.15

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Avoid marking node as Ready until node has synced with API servers at least once ([#99034](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99034), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman)) [SIG Node]

- Kubeadm: deprecated the kubeadm `RootlessControlPlane` feature gate (previously alpha), given that the core K8s `UserNamespacesSupport` feature gate graduated to beta in 1.30.
  Once core Kubernetes support for user namespaces is generally available and kubeadm has started to support running the control plane in userns pods, the kubeadm `RootlessControlPlane` feature gate will be removed entirely.

- PersistentVolumeClaim objects are no longer left with storage class set to `nil` forever, but will be updated retroactively once any StorageClass is set or created as default. ([#...

- For raw block CSI volumes on Kubernetes, kubelet was incorrectly calling CSI NodeStageVolume for every single "map" (i.e. raw block "mount") operation for a volume already attached to the node. This PR ensures it is only called once per volume per node. ([#112403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112403), [@akankshakumari393](https://github.com/akankshakumari393)) [SIG Storage]