- The `wait.Poll*` and `wait.ExponentialBackoff*` functions have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.  Callers should switch to using `wait.PollUntilContextCancel`, `wait.PollUntilContextTimeout`,...

  2. if there's a transient error happened during "provisioning/deletion", i.e., a volume is still in-use while a deleteVolume has been called, original `storage_operation_duration_seconds` will NOT wait until a volume has been finally deleted before reporting an inaccurate latency metric. The newly implemented metric `volume_operation_total_seconds`, however, waits until a provisioning/deletion...

- This PR added tracing support to the kubelet's read-only endpoint, which currently
  does not have tracing. It makes use of the `WithPublicEndpoint` option to prevent callers
  from influencing sampling decisions. ([#121770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121770), [@frzifus](https://github.com/frzifus)) [SIG Node]

object (if the server supports it) will be of type meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1 with Table, and contain column and row information related to the resource. Each row will contain information about the resource - by default it will be the object metadata, but callers can add the ?includeObject=Object query parameter and receive the full object. In the future kubectl will use this to retrieve the results of `kubectl get`. ([#40848](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40848), [@smarterclayton](https:/...

- Bump runc to v1.1.4. ([#113719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113719), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Callers using `DelegatingAuthenticationOptions` can now use `DisableAnonymous` to disable Anonymous authentication. ([#112181](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112181), [@xueqzhan](https://github.com/xueqzhan))

- The e2e suite can be instructed not to wait for pods in kube-system to be ready or for all nodes to be ready by passing `--allowed-not-ready-nodes=-1` when invoking the e2e.test program. This allows callers to run subsets of the e2e suite in scenarios other than perfectly healthy clusters. ([#98781](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98781), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Currently, NodeAdded QueueingHint could not always be called because of the internal feature called preCheck.
  It's definitely not something expected for plugin developers,
  and we're trying to eventually remove preCheck completely to fix this.

- When using `kubectl replace` (or the equivalent API call) on a Service, the caller no longer needs to do a read-modify-write cycle to fetch the allocated values for `.spec.clusterIP` and `.spec.ports[].nodePort`.  Instead the API server will automatically carry these forward from the original object when the new object does not...

- Informer/reflector callers can now catch and unwrap specific API errors by type. ([#110076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110076), [@karlkfi](https://github.com/karlkfi))

(if the server supports it) will be of type `meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1` with `Table`, and contain column and row information related to the resource.  Each row will contain information about the resource - by default it will be the object metadata, but callers can add the `?includeObject=Object` query parameter and receive the full object.  In the future kubectl will use this to retrieve the results of `kubectl get`. ([#40848](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40848), [@smarterclayton](http...