- Promoted the feature gate `AnyVolumeDataSource` to GA. ([#129770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129770), [@sunnylovestiramisu](https://github.com/sunnylovestiramisu)) [SIG Apps, Storage and Testing]
- Removed general available feature gate `CPUManager`. ([#129296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129296), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]

* AWS cloudprovider plugin: Fix for large clusters (200+ nodes). Also fix bug with volumes not getting detached from a node after reboot. ([#48312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48312), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Fix Pods using Portworx volumes getting stuck in ContainerCreating phase. ([#48898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48898), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))

    * or grant self-deletion permission explicitly:
        * `kubectl create clusterrole self-deleting-nodes --verb=delete --resource=nodes`
        * `kubectl create clusterrolebinding self-deleting-nodes --clusterrole=self-deleting-nodes --group=system:nodes`

- When client certificate files are provided, reload files for new connections, and close connections when a certificate changes. ([#79083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79083), [@jackkleeman](https://github.com/jackkleeman)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Node and Testing]

    * `kubectl delete node/<nodeName>`
    * or grant self-deletion permission explicitly:
        * `kubectl create clusterrole self-deleting-nodes --verb=delete --resource=nodes`
        * `kubectl create clusterrolebinding self-deleting-nodes --clusterrole=self-deleting-nodes --group=system:nodes`

- Promote PodHostIPs condition to beta. ([#120257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120257), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]
- Promote PodHostIPs condition to beta. ([#121477](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121477), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Network and Testing]

* ignore nonexistent ns net file error when deleting container network in case a retry ([#57697](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57697), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

* Use old dns-ip mechanism with older cdk-addons. ([#57403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57403), [@wwwtyro](https://github.com/wwwtyro))

- Use NLB Subnet CIDRs instead of VPC CIDRs in Health Check SG Rules ([#93515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93515), [@t0rr3sp3dr0](https://github.com/t0rr3sp3dr0)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Support pod priority based node graceful shutdown (#102915, @wzshiming) [SIG Node and Testing]

### Feature

- CRI v1 is now the project default. If a container runtime does not support the v1 API, Kubernetes will fall back to the v1alpha2 implementation. (#106501, @ehashman) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Update debian-base, debian-iptables, setcap images to pick up CVE fixes
  - Debian-base to v1.9.0
  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7
  - setcap to v2.0.4 (#106143, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Fixes hostpath storage e2e tests within SELinux enabled env (#105786, @Elbehery) [SIG Testing]

### Bug or Regression