runtime failures and now perform a more rigorous reconciliation to ensure static pods (especially those that use fixed UIDs) are restarted.  As a side effect of these changes static pods will be restarted with lower latency than before (2s vs 4s, on average) and rapid updates to pod configuration should take effect sooner.
  
  A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states.  Operators may...

  `sync_partial_proxy_rules_duration_seconds` (in addition to the existing\n`sync_proxy_rules_duration_seconds`),
  giving better information about the duration of each \nsync type, rather than
  only giving a weighted average of the two sync types together. ([#117787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117787), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))
- `kubeadm`: added a new "kubeadm config validate" command that can be used to

    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_demand_seats_high_watermark`: High watermark, over last adjustment period, of demand_seats
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_demand_seats_average`: Time-weighted average, over last adjustment period, of demand_seats
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_demand_seats_stdev`: Time-weighted standard deviation, over last adjustment period, of demand_seats

- This PR will leverage subtests on the existing table tests for the scheduler units. ([#63665](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63665), [@xchapter7x](https://github.com/xchapter7x))

* Improve our Instance Metadata coverage in Azure. ([#49237](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49237), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

- The kubeconfig is now exposed in `the kube-scheduler` framework handle. Out-of-tree plugins can leverage that to build CRD informers easily. ([#100644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100644), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

### Other notable announcements

SIG Network is moving IPv6 to Beta in Kubernetes 1.18, after incrementing significantly the test coverage with new CI jobs.

* Implement kubectl rollout undo and history for DaemonSet ([#46144](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46144), [@janetkuo](https://github.com/janetkuo))
* Respect PDBs during node upgrades and add test coverage to the ServiceTest upgrade test. ([#45748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45748), [@mml](https://github.com/mml))

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.31.0 - v1.31.11
  - kube-apiserver v1.32.0 - v1.32.7

- Hack/update-codegen.sh now automatically ensured goimports and protoc. ([#131459](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131459), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder))
- Increased test coverage for kubelet package to 92.3%. ([#132484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132484), [@ylink-lfs](https://github.com/ylink-lfs))