* A new field hostAliases has been added to the pod spec to support [adding entries to a Pod's /etc/hosts file](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/add-entries-to-pod-etc-hosts-with-host-aliases/). ([#44641](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44641), [@rickypai](https://github.com/rickypai))

  // +optional
  repeated string searches = 2;

  // A list of DNS resolver options.
  // This will be merged with the base options generated from DNSPolicy.
  // Duplicated entries will be removed. Resolution options given in Options
  // will override those that appear in the base DNSPolicy.
  // +optional
  repeated PodDNSConfigOption options = 3;
}

- Text logging in Kubernetes components now uses [textlogger](https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/klog/v2@v2.120.0/textlogger). The same split streams of info and error log entries with buffering of info entries is now also supported for text output (off by default, alpha feature). Previously, this was only supported for JSON. Performance is better also without split streams. ([#114672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114672),...

- Kubenet: added HostPort IPv6 support.  HostPortManager: operates only with one IP family, failing if receives port mapping entries with different IP families.  HostPortSyncer: operates only with one IP family, skipping portmap entries with different IP families ([#80854](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80854), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- The new test `[sig-network] DNS should now provide /etc/hosts entries for the cluster [LinuxOnly] [Conformance]` will validate the host entries set in the ``/etc/hosts`` file (pod's FQDN and hostname), which should be managed by Kubelet. ([#72729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72729), [@bclau](https://github.com/bclau))

- Scheduler's assumed...

- A terminating pod on a node that is not caused by preemption no longer prevents `kube-scheduler` from preempting pods on that node

## Changelog since v1.23.16

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ... 

- The scheduler's assumed...

*   Added support for adding a Windows node ([#53553](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53553),[ @bsteciuk](https://github.com/bsteciuk))

#### **Juju**

*   Added support for SAN entries in the master node certificate. ([#54234](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54234),[ @hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346))