* Fix a scheduler panic due to internal cache inconsistency ([#71063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71063), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* kubectl: fixes regression in --sort-by behavior ([#71805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71805), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fixes apiserver nil pointer panics when requesting v2beta1 autoscaling object metrics ([#71744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71744), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

* Fix a scheduler panic due to internal cache inconsistency ([#71063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71063), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixed client IP preservation for NodePort service with protocol SCTP in ipvs. ([#104756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104756), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn))
- Fixed concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. ([#105734](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105734), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel))
- Fixed consolidate logs for `instance not found` error

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump version of fluentd-gcp to 2.0.18 to include latest security fixes. ([#67693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67693), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
* Return apiserver panics as 500 errors instead terminating the apiserver process. ([#68001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68001), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#105793, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106356, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106112, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]

  - `io.k8s.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.StatusDetails_v2`
  - `io.k8s.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.Status_v2` ([#110179](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110179), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))
- Panics while calling validating admission webhook are caught and honor the fail open or fail closed setting. ([#108746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108746), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixes a 1.29.0 regression that introduced a possible data race that could cause panics in kube-controller-manager and kube-scheduler ([#124518](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124518), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery and Scheduling]