- Added `/sys/devices/virtual/powercap` to default masked paths. It avoids the potential security risk that the ability to read these files may offer a power-based sidechannel attack against any workloads running on the same kernel. ([#125970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125970), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

- With this new stable feature, Kubernetes supports the scaling of containerized applications with Azure VMSS, including the ability to integrate it with cluster-autoscaler to automatically adjust the size of the Kubernetes clusters based on the same conditions.

### SIG-cli

- Extended resources backed by DRA feature allowed cluster operator to specify `extendedResourceName` in `DeviceClass`, and application operator to continue using extended resources in pod's requests to request for DRA devices matching the DeviceClass.
  

- The new flag `--chunk-size=SIZE` has been added to `kubectl describe`. This flag may be used to alter the number of items or disable this feature when `0` is passed. ([#101171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101171), [@KnVerey](https://github.com/KnVerey))...

- Make decoding etcd's response respect the timeout context. ([#121815](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121815), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi)) [SIG API Machinery]

- QueueingHint implementation for NodeUnschedulable is reverted because we found potential scenarios where events that make Pods schedulable could be missed. ([#122326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122326), [@sanposhiho](htt...

### Documentation

- kubeadm: make sure the extra environment variables written to a kubeadm managed PodSpec are sorted alpha-numerically by the environment variable name. ([#126743](https://github....

### Bug or Regression

- Add `/sys/devices/virtual/powercap` to default masked paths. It avoids the potential security risk that the ability to read these files may offer a power-based sidechannel attack against any workloads running on the same kernel. ([#125970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125970), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Node]

- kube-proxy metrics are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level. ([#81626](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81626), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))