- Replaced deprecated package `k8s.io/utils/pointer` with `k8s.io/utils/ptr` for the apiextensions-apiserver apiextensions. ([#132723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132723), [@PatrickLaabs](https://github.com/PatrickLaabs))

  for actions against a CRI endpoint. The kubeadm deb/rpm packages will continue to install the `cri-tools`
  package for one more release, but in you must adapt your scripts to install `crictl` manually from
  https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases or a different location.
  
  The `kubeadm` package will stop depending on the `cri-tools` package in Kubernetes 1.32, which means that

* kubeadm: Fix pause image to not use architecture, as it is a manifest list ([#65920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65920), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
* bazel deb package bugfix: The kubeadm deb package now reloads the kubelet after installation ([#65554](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65554), [@rdodev](https://github.com/rdodev))

- Export `NewDebuggingRoundTripper` function and `DebugLevel` options in the k8s.io/client-go/transport package. ([#98324](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98324), [@atosatto](https://github.com/atosatto))

* The `DefaultFeatureGate` package variable now only exposes readonly feature gate methods. Methods for mutating feature gates have moved into a `MutableFeatureGate` interface and are accessible via the `DefaultMutableFeatureGate` package variable. Only top-level commands and options setup should access `DefaultMutableFeatureGate`. ([#71302](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71302),...

- For Dynamic Resource Allocation, the new "v1beta1" kubelet gPRC was renamed so that the protobuf package name is unique. ([#128764](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128764), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- kubeadm: stop setting UID in the kubelet ConfigMap ([#66341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66341), [@runiq](https://github.com/runiq))
- bazel deb package bugfix: The kubeadm deb package now reloads the kubelet after installation ([#65554](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65554), [@rdodev](https://github.com/rdodev))

- Expose a `NewUnstructuredExtractor` from apply configurations `meta/v1` package that enables extracting objects into unstructured apply configurations. ([#103564](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103564), [@kevindelgado](https://github.com/kevindelgado))

- Moved `k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cri/streaming` package to `k8s.io/kubelet/pkg/cri/streaming`. ([#118253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118253), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Node, Release and Security]

* Use full package path for definition name in OpenAPI spec ([#40124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40124), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))