- Made `apiextensions-apiserver` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114226), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

  Similarly you can also access  kubelet's `/pods` endpoint to fetch a list of Pods bound to that node by granting the caller `nodes/pods` permission in RBAC.
  Similarly you can also access kubelet's `/configz` endpoint to fetch kubelet's configuration by granting the caller `nodes/configz` permission in RBAC.

### Container Images

All container images are available as manifest lists and support the described
architectures. It is also possible to pull a specific architecture directly by
adding the "-$ARCH" suffix  to the container image name.

name | architectures
---- | -------------

- Fix: skip instance not found when decoupling vmss from lb ([#105836](https://gith...

### Container Images

All container images are available as manifest lists and support the described
architectures. It is also possible to pull a specific architecture directly by
adding the "-$ARCH" suffix  to the container image name.

name | architectures
---- | -------------

- The API server now detects and fails on startup if...

- Add Kubernetes Events to the `Kubelet Graceful Shutdown` feature. ([#101081](htt...

Kubeadm: improve the strict parsing of user YAML/JSON configuration files. Next to printing warnings for unknown and duplicate fields (current state), also print warnings for fields with incorrect case sensitivity - e.g. `controlPlaneEndpoint` (valid), `ControlPlaneEndpoint` (invalid). Instead of only printing warnings during `init` and `join` also print warnings when downloading the ClusterConfiguration, KubeletConfiguration or KubeProxyConfiguration objects from the cluster. This can be useful if...

  
  Additionally, the FailureTarget condition is also added to the Job object in the first Job
  status update as soon as the failure conditions are met (backoffLimit is exceeded, maxFailedIndexes, 
  or activeDeadlineSeconds is exceeded).
  
  Similarly, the SuccessCriteriaMet condition is added in the first update as soon as the expected number
  of pod completions is reached.
  

- `apiserver_dropped_requests` is dropped from this release since `apiserver_request_total` can now be used to track dropped requests. `etcd_object_counts` is also removed in favor of `apiserver_storage_objects`. `apiserver_registered_watchers` is also removed in favor of `apiserver_longrunning_requests`. ([#110337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110337), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))