- If firstTimestamp is not set use firstTimestamp or eventTime when printing event ([#91055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91055), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI]
- Kubeadm increased to 5 minutes its timeout for the TLS bootstrapping process to complete upon join ([#89735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89735), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Resolves a performance regression in default 1.31+ configurations, related to the ConsistentListFromCache feature, where rapid create / update API requests across different namespaces encounter increased latency. ([#130136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130136), [@AwesomePatrol](https://github.com/AwesomePatrol)) [SIG API Machinery]
- The following roles have had `Watch` added to them (prefixed with `system:controller:`):

- The maximum number of ports allowed in EndpointSlices has been increased from 100 to 20,000 ([#99795](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99795), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Network]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* CSI detach timeout increased from 10 seconds to 2 minutes ([#84321](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84321), [@cduchesne](https://github.com/cduchesne))

* CSI detach timeout increased from 10 seconds to 2 minutes ([#84321](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84321), [@cduchesne](https://github.com/cduchesne))

- Increase timeout for pod lifecycle test to reach pod status=ready ([#96691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96691), [@hh](https://github.com/hh))
- Increased `CSINodeIDMaxLength` from 128 bytes to 192 bytes. ([#98753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98753), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

New alpha features include:
* Online volume resizing will increase the filesystem size of a resized volume without requiring a Pod restart.
* AWS EBS and GCE PD volumes support increased limits on the maximum number of attached volumes per node.

- Introduce `v1beta3` API for scheduler. This version 
  - increases the weight of user specifiable priorities.
  The weights of following priority plugins are increased
    - `TaintTolerations` to 3 - as leveraging node tainting to group nodes in the cluster is becoming a widely-adopted practice
    - `NodeAffinity` to 2

* Increase Horizontal Pod Autoscaler default update interval (30s -> 15s). It will improve HPA reaction time for metric changes. ([#68021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68021), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

- Included the namespace in the output of `kubectl delete` for better identification of resources. ([#126619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126619), [@totegamma](https://github.com/totegamma))
- Increased APF max seats to 100 for LIST requests. ([#133034](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133034), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))