command-line flags with an internal flagset, which prevents flags from third party libraries from unintentionally leaking into the Kubelet's command-line API. Many unintentionally leaked flags are now marked deprecated, so that users have a chance to migrate away from them before they are removed. In addition, one previously leaked flag, --cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs, has been entirely removed from the Kubelet's command-line API, because it is irrelevant to Kubelet operation. The deprecated flags are:...

- Namespace editors and admins can now create leases.coordination.k8s.io and should use this type for leaderelection instead of configmaps. ([#111515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111515), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

      which can be identified by the [node problem detector](http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/node-problem/)
    * Leaked File descriptors ([#275](https://github.com/docker/containerd/issues/275))
    * Additional memory overhead per container ([#21737](https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/21737))

* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

        - File descriptor leak on init/control.
          ([#275](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues/275))

        - Additional memory overhead per container.
          ([#21737](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/21737))

        - Processes may be leaked when Docker is repeatedly terminated in a short
          time frame.

yet present, thus enforcing authentication / re-authentication. This means an image pull might be attempted even in cases where a pod requests the `IfNotPresent` image pull policy, and might lead to the pod not starting if its pull policy is `Never` and is unable to present authentication information that lead to a previous successful pull of the image it is requesting. ([#128152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128152), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture,...

- Kubernetes components that perform leader election now only support using `Leases` for this. ([#114055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114055), [@aimuz](https://github.com/aimuz))

- Removed "endpoint-controller" and "workload-leader-election" FlowSchemas from the default APF configuration.
  

- Fixes a kubelet and kube-apiserver memory leak in default 1.29 configurations related to tracing. ([#126985](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126985), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]
- Fixes a regression introduced in 1.29 where conntrack entries for UDP connections
  to deleted pods did not get cleaned up correctly, which could (among other things)

- Fixed a possible memory leak in the QueueingHint (alpha feature). ([#126962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126962), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- Fixed a potential memory leak in QueueingHint (alpha feature). ([#127016](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127016), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))