- Added `--disable-compression` flag to `kubectl` (default = false). When true, it opts out of response compression for all requests to the `apiserver`. This can help improve list call latencies significantly when client-server network bandwidth is ample (>30MB/s) or if the server is CPU-constrained. ([#112580](https://github.com/kub...

- The client label for apiserver_request_count and apiserver_request_total now no-opts and merely records an empty string. ([#87673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87673), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

- The client label for apiserver_request_count and apiserver_request_total now no-opts and merely records an empty string. ([#87673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87673), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- A new storage E2E testsuite covers CSIStorageCapacity publishing if a driver opts into the test. ([#100537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100537), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

- kube-apiserver disables the beta WatchList feature by default in 1.33 in favor of the `StreamingCollectionEncodingToJSON` and `StreamingCollectionEncodingToProtobuf` features.kube-controller-manager no longer opts into enabling the WatchListClient feature in 1.33. ([#131359](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131359), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added

- The client label for apiserver_request_count and apiserver_request_total now no-opts and merely records an empty string. ([#87673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87673), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

  Please see [the KEP](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-storage/1710-selinux-relabeling#story-3-cluster-upgrade) how we expect to warn users before any SELinux behavior changes and how they can opt-out before. Note that this field and feature gate is useful only with clusters that run with SELinux enabled. No action is required on clusters without SELinux. ([#127981](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127981), [@jsafrane](https://g...

- CSI drivers can now opt in to receive service account tokens via the secrets field instead of volume context by setting `spec.serviceAccountTokenInSecrets: true` in the CSIDriver object. This prevents tokens from being exposed in logs and other outputs. The feature is gated...

these http/2 attacks may choose to disable the kube-apiserver mitigation to avoid disrupting load balancer -> kube-apiserver connections if http/2 requests from multiple clients share the same backend connection. An API server on a private network may opt to disable the kube-apiserver mitigation to prevent performance regressions for unauthenticated clients. Authenticated requests rely on the fix in golang.org/x/net `v0.17.0` alone. https://issue.k8s.io/121197 tracks further mitigation of http/2 attacks...

that enables the caller of a function to control all aspects of logging (output formatting, verbosity, additional values and names).

### Avoiding Collisions in IP allocation to Services

Kubernetes 1.24 introduced a new opt-in feature that allows you to
[soft-reserve a range for static IP address assignments](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#service-ip-static-sub-range)
to Services.