- If the user specifies an invalid timeout in the request URL, the request will be aborted with an HTTP 400.

- If the user specifies an invalid timeout in the request URL, the request will be aborted with an HTTP 400.

- DRA: When the prioritized list feature was used in a request and the resulting number of allocated devices exceeded the number of allowed devices per claim, the scheduler aborted the attempt to allocate devices early. Previously, it tried to many different combinations, which could take a long time. ([#130593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130593), [@mortent](https://github.com/mortent)) [SIG Apps, Node, Scheduling...

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  * `api-servers` - add apiserver addresses to the kubeconfig file instead.

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the kubelet to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the kubelet to abort the startup.

*   kubectl `top node` now sorts by name and `top pod` sorts by namespace. Fixed a bug where results were inconsistently sorted. ([#53560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53560),[ @dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

  - increases the weight of user specifiable priorities.
  The weights of following priority plugins are increased
    - `TaintTolerations` to 3 - as leveraging node tainting to group nodes in the cluster is becoming a widely-adopted practice
    - `NodeAffinity` to 2
    - `InterPodAffinity` to 2
  

* APIServices with kube-like versions (e.g. `v1`, `v2beta1`, etc.) will be sorted appropriately within each group.  ([#64004](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64004), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))

In this release the SIG again focused on further improving the user experience on cluster creation and also fixing a number of bugs and other assorted improvements.

Some notable changes in kubeadm since Kubernetes 1.12:

- `kubelet` will ensure /etc/hosts file is mode 0644 regardless of umask. ([#113209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113209), [@luozhiwenn](https://github.com/luozhiwenn))
- `kubelet`: print sorted volumes message in events. ([#117079](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117079), [@qingwave](https://github.com/qingwave))
- `wait.PollUntilContextTimeout` function, if immediate is true, the condition

- Enabled ratcheting validation on `status` subresources for CustomResourceDefinitions. ([#129506](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129506), [@JoelSpeed](https://github.com/JoelSpeed))
- Fix: Adopted go1.23 behavior change in mount point parsing on Windows. ([#129368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129368), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage and Windows]