* Action required: validation rule on metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name needs to contain at least three segments separated by dots. If you create objects with pending initializers, (i.e., not relying on apiserver adding pending initializers according to initializerconfiguration), you need to update the initializer name in existing objects and in configuration files to comply...

- DRA: Device taints enable DRA drivers or admins to mark device as unusable, which prevents allocating them. Pods may also get evicted at runtime if a device becomes unusable, depending on the severity of the taint and whether the claim tolerates the taint. ([#130447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130447), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Architecture, Auth, Etcd, Instrumentation, Node,...

- cloud.google.com/go/analytics: v0.22.0
- cloud.google.com/go/apigateway: v1.6.4
- cloud.google.com/go/apigeeconnect: v1.6.4
- cloud.google.com/go/apigeeregistry: v0.8.2
- cloud.google.com/go/appengine: v1.8.4
- cloud.google.com/go/area120: v0.8.4
- cloud.google.com/go/artifactregistry: v1.14.6
- cloud.google.com/go/asset: v1.17.0
- cloud.google.com/go/assuredworkloads: v1.11.4
- cloud.google.com/go/automl: v1.13.4

enabled.([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436))

* [Action required] The validation rule for metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name must contain at least three segments, separated by dots. You can create objects with pending initializers and not rely on the API server to add pending initializers according to `initializerConfiguration`. If you do so, update the initializer name in the existing objects and the configuration files to...

- Fixes a 1.32 regression in with the ServiceAccountNodeAudienceRestriction feature where `azureFile`...

  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  
  This fixes the issue for jobs using pod failure policy (with JobPodFailurePolicy and PodDisruptionConditions 
  feature gates enabled) that their pods could get stuck in the pending phase when deleted.
  

    * when updating a service or when node changes occur.
* kubectl: fixed an issue with "too old resource version" errors continuously appearing when calling `kubectl delete` ([#72825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72825), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fix a race condition in transforming informer happening when objects were accessed during Resync operation ([#124344](https://github.com/kubernetes/...

- The API server now detects and fails on startup if there are conflicting issuers between JWT authenticators and service account configurations. Previously, such configurations would run but could be inconsistently effective depending on the credential. ([#123561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123561), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

* Extend TLS timeouts to work around slow arm64 math/big ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))
* GCE: Fixes loadbalancer creation and deletion issues appearing in 1.10.5. ([#66400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66400), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))