init`. If you don't want the kubelet to pull any images at `kubeadm init` time, for example if you don't have an internet connection, you can also run `kubeadm config images pull` before `kubeadm init` or side-load the images some other way (such as `docker load -i image.tar`). Having the images locally cached will result in no pull at runtime, which makes it possible to run without any internet connection. ([#64096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64096), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))...

- Fixed a spurious `namespace not found` error in default `v1.30+` configurations when using `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` or `MutatingAdmissionPolicy` to intercept namespaced objects in newly-created namespaces. ([#135359](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135359), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- GCE clusters will include some IP ranges that are not used on the public Internet in the list of non-masq IPs. Bumped ip-masq-agent version to v2.3.0 with flag `nomasq-all-reserved-ranges` turned on. ([#77458](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77458), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))

- kubeadm now works better when not connected to the Internet. In addition,  common kubeadm commands will now work without an available networking interface. ([#67397](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67397), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Kubeadm: now sets the host `OS` environment variables when executing `crictl` during image pulls. This fixed a bug where `*PROXY` environment variables did not affect `crictl` internet connectivity. ([#110134](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110134), [@mk46](https://github.com/mk46))

## Notable Features
Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo.  Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from the [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md).

### Autoscaling

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a spurious "namespace not found" error possible in default configurations in 1.30+ when using ValidatingAdmissionPolicy or MutatingAdmissionPolicy to intercept namespaced objects in newly-created namespaces ([#135444](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135444), [@lalitc375](https://github.com/lalitc375)) [SIG API Machinery]

### AWS

* Add AWS cloud provider option to use an assumed IAM role. For example, this allows running Controller Manager in a account separate from the worker nodes, but still allows all resources created to interact with the workers. ELBs created would be in the same account as the worker nodes for instance.([#59668](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59668), [@brycecarman](https://github.com/brycecarman))