- `client-go`: Improved memory use of reflector caches when watching large numbers
  of objects which do not change frequently. ([#113362](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113362), [@sxllwx](https://github.com/sxllwx))
- `component-base/logs` is now stricter about not applying configurations multiple

- Overall, enable the feature of `PreferNominatedNode` will  improve the performance of scheduling where preemption might frequently happen, but in theory, enable the feature of `PreferNominatedNode`, the pod might not be scheduled to the best candidate node in the cluster. ([#93179](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93179), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))...

* client-go: shortens refresh period for token files to 1 minute to ensure auto-rotated projected service account tokens are read frequently enough. ([#72437](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72437), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

## Changelog since v1.13.1

### Other notable changes

* client-go: shortens refresh period for token files to 1 minute to ensure auto-rotated projected service account tokens are read frequently enough. ([#72437](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72437), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* client-go: shortens refresh period for token files to 1 minute to ensure auto-rotated projected service account tokens are read frequently enough. ([#72437](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72437), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- [`KT-66271`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-66271) Fir: Deserialize classFile, functionFile and propertyFile from KlibMetadataProtoBuf
- [`KT-57957`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-57957) K2: Symbol providers are frequently queried with error-named class IDs
- [`KT-66046`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-66046) K2: false negative CANNOT_WEAKEN_ACCESS_PRIVILEGE on property

    * It's mainly syntax sugar, a convenience for developer experience.
    * Now `Request`, `Response`, `WebSocket`, `status` can be imported directly from `fastapi` as in `from fastapi import Response`. This is because those are frequently used, to use the request directly, to set headers and cookies, to get status codes, etc.
    * Documentation changes in many places, but new docs and noticeable improvements:

- Promote NodeLease feature to GA.
The feature make Lease object changes an additional healthiness signal from Node. Together with that, we reduce frequency of NodeStatus updates to 5m by default in case of no changes to status itself ([#84351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84351), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- `--log-flush-frequency` had no effect in several commands or was missing. Help and warning texts were not always using the right format for a command (`add_dir_header` instead of `add-dir-header`). Fixing this included cleaning up flag handling in component-base/logs: that package no longer adds flags to the global flag sets. Commands which want the klog and `--log-flush-frequency` flags must explicitly call `logs.AddFlags`; the new `cli.Run` does...

* We change the default attach_detach_controller sync period to 1 minute to reduce the query frequency through cloud provider to check whether volumes are attached or not. ([#41363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41363), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

## Changes to Major Components
### API Server