- Fixes the bug in PodTopologySpread that only happens with QHint enabled, 

  before updating a cluster where resourceclaims, resourceclaimtemplates, deviceclasses, or resourceslices might have been stored using Kubernetes < 1.32, delete all of those resources before updating and recreate them as needed while running Kubernetes >= 1.32. ([#132000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132000), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Etcd, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

* kube-apiserver now drops unneeded path information if an older version of Windows kubectl sends it. ([#44421](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44421), [@mml](https://github.com/mml))


#### Application autoscaling

- Improved how the API server responds to **list** requests where the response format negotiates to Protobuf. List responses in Protobuf are marshalled one element at the time, drastically reducing memory needed to serve large collections. Streaming list responses can be disabled via the `StreamingCollectionEncodingToProtobuf` feature gate. ([#129407](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129407), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API...

* fix issue: vm sku restriction policy does not work in azure disk attach/detach ([#71941](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71941), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Include CRD for BGPConfigurations, needed for calico 2.x to 3.x upgrade. ([#71868](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71868), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

* kube-apiserver now drops unneeded path information if an older version of Windows kubectl sends it. ([#44421](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44421), [@mml](https://github.com/mml))

* Updated Container Storage Interface specification version to v0.3.0 ([#64719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64719), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))
* Kubeadm: Make CoreDNS run in read-only mode and drop all unneeded privileges  ([#64473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64473), [@nberlee](https://github.com/nberlee))

- Added new feature gate called `RuntimeClassInImageCriApi` to address `kubelet` changes needed for KEP 4216.
  Noteable changes:
  1. Populate new `RuntimeHandler` field in CRI's `ImageSpec` struct during image pulls from container runtimes.

  with the number of existing entries in the internal cache
  
  - `rest_client_transport_create_calls_total` is a counter
  that increments each time a new transport is created, storing
  the result of the operation needed to generate it: hit, miss
  or uncacheable. ([#117295](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117295), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

Kubernetes releases are now generating provenance attestation files describing the staging and release phases of the release process and artifacts are verified as they are handed over from one phase to the next.
This final piece completes the work needed to comply with Level 1 of the [SLSA security framework](https://slsa.dev/) (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts).

### IPv4/IPv6 Dual-stack Networking graduates to GA