- Added `auditAnnotations` to `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy`, enabling CEL to be used to add audit annotations to request audit events.

- Added support to the kube-apiserver for an alpha feature enabling external signing of service account tokens and fetching of public verifying keys, by enabling the Alpha `ExternalServiceAccountTokenSigner` feature gate and specifying `--service-account-signing-endpoint`. The flag value can either be the location of a Unix domain socket on a filesystem, or be...

- Introduced the `LegacySidecarContainers` feature gate enabling the legacy code path that predates the `SidecarContainers` feature. This temporary feature gate is disabled by default, only available in v1.33, and will be removed in v1.34. ([#130058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130058), [@gj...

- Job: Fix a bug that the SuccessCriteriaMet could be added to the Job with successPolicy regardless of the featureGate enabling ([#125455](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125455), [@tenzen-y](https://github.com/tenzen-y)) [SIG Apps]

- Kube-apiserver: Promoted the `ExternalServiceAccountTokenSigner` feature to beta, which enabled external signing of service account tokens and fetching of public verifying keys. This was accomplished by enabling the beta `ExternalServiceAccountTokenSigner` feature gate and specifying the `--service-account-signing-endpoint` flag. The flag value could either be the path to a Unix domain socket on the filesystem, or be prefixed with @ to indicate a Unix domain...

- Existing InTree AzureFile PVs which don't have a secret namespace defined will now work properly after enabling CSI migration - the namespace will be obtained from ClaimRef. ([#108000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108000), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

- Added `UserNamespacesPodSecurityStandards` feature gate to enable user namespace support for Pod Security Standards.
  Enabling this feature will modify all Pod Security Standard rules to allow setting: `spec[.*].securityContext.[runAsNonRoot,runAsUser]`.

* Add a label which prevents a node from being added to a cloud load balancer ([#53146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53146), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
* Add a new feature gate for enabling an alpha annotation which, if present, excludes the annotated node from being added to a service load balancers. ([#54644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54644), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

* Correctly handle transient connection reset errors on GET requests from client library. ([#58520](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58520), [@porridge](https://github.com/porridge))
* Avoid controller-manager to crash when enabling IP alias for K8s cluster. ([#58557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58557), [@jingax10](https://github.com/jingax10))



# v1.9.2

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## Known Issues