- Added a kubelet metric `container_aligned_compute_resources_count`  to report the count of containers getting aligned compute resources. ([#127155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127155), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Added a new `align-by-socket` policy option to cpu manager `static` policy.  When enabled CPU's to be aligned at socket boundary rather than NUMA boundary. ([#111278](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111278), [@arpitsardhana](https://github.com/arpitsardhana))

### Signing Release Artifacts

Release artifacts are [signed](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/3031) using [cosign](https://github.com/sigstore/cosign)
signatures
and there is experimental support for [verifying image signatures](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/verify-signed-images/).

- `DynamicKubeletConfig` feature gate has been removed from the API server.
  Dynamic kubelet reconfiguration now can't be used even when older nodes are still
  attempting to rely on it. This is aligned with the Kubernetes version skew policy.
   ([#112643](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112643), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev))

  
  $ kubectl describe pod xxx
  ......
  Events:
    Type    Reason     Age        From               Message
    ----    ------     ----       ----               -------
    Normal  Scheduled  <unknown>  default-scheduler  Successfully assigned default/nginx-6c975b59f8-gvmjr to minikube
  ......

- Fix handling of aws-load-balancer-security-groups annotation. Security-Groups assigned with this annotation are no longer modified by kubernetes which is the expected behaviour of most users. Also no unnecessary Security-Groups are created anymore if this annotation is used. ([#88691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88691),...

    * Some refactoring of error/status messages and functions to align with new approach.
* This PR will leverage subtests on the existing table tests for the scheduler units. ([#63661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63661), [@xchapter7x](https://github.com/xchapter7x))
    * Some refactoring of error/status messages and functions to align with new approach.

- Added the `SizeBasedListCostEstimate` feature gate (enabled by default), which changes how APF seats are assigned to `LIST` requests. With this feature, one seat is assigned per 100KB of data loaded into memory at once during a `LIST` operation. ([#132932](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132932), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

- github.com/golangci/golangci-lint: v1.18.0
- github.com/golangci/gosec: 66fb7fc
- github.com/golangci/ineffassign: 42439a7
- github.com/golangci/lint-1: ee948d0
- github.com/golangci/maligned: b1d8939
- github.com/golangci/misspell: 950f5d1
- github.com/golangci/prealloc: 215b22d
- github.com/golangci/revgrep: d9c87f5
- github.com/golangci/unconvert: 28b1c44

    * Openstack cinder v1/v2/auto API support ([#40423](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40423), [@mkutsevol](https://github.com/mkutsevol))