### GCP

- [stackdriver addon] Bumped prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

- Bumped `cel-go` to `v0.17.7` and introduced set `ext` library with new options. ([#121577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121577), [@cici37](https://github.com/cici37))
- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to `0.3.2` based on Go `1.21.1`. ([#120527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120527), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))

*   Added extra-args configs to kubernetes-worker charm ([#55334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55334),[ @Cynerva](https://github.com/Cynerva))

#### **Other**

*   Base images have been bumped to Debian Stretch (9) ([#52744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52744),[ @rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))

* kubelet to master communication when doing node status updates now has a timeout to prevent indefinite hangs ([#52176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52176), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Bumped Heapster version to 1.4.3 - more details https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/releases/tag/v1.4.3 ([#53376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53376), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

- Bumped DRA API version to `v1` in `deviceattribute` package in `k8s.io/dynamic-resource-allocation`. ([#133164](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133164), [@everpeace](https://github.com/everpeace))

* kubeadm allows the kubelets in the cluster to automatically renew their client certificates ([#53252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53252), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
* Bumped Heapster version to 1.4.3 - more details https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/releases/tag/v1.4.3. ([#53377](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53377), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

- Updated defaultbackend image to 1.5. Users should concentrate on updating scripts to the new version. ([#69120](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69120), [@aledbf](https://github.com/aledbf))
- Bumped Dashboard version to v1.10.0 ([#68450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68450), [@jeefy](https://github.com/jeefy))

- Kubernetes 1.24 bumped version of golang it is compiled with to go1.18, which introduced significant changes to its garbage collection algorithm. As a result, we observed an increase in memory usage for kube-apiserver in larger an heavily loaded clusters up to ~25% (with...

- Bumped `ProcMountType` feature to on by default beta ([#130798](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130798), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node]

- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to 0.2.6 based on Go 1.20.6. ([#119365](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119365), [@xmudrii](https://github.com/xmudrii))
- Bumped metrics-server to `v0.6.3`. ([#117120](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117120), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet))