- Added --authorization-always-allow-paths to components doing delegated authorization to exclude certain HTTP paths like /healthz from authorization. ([#67543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67543), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

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* 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))

* 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))

- 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]

- K8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime: Added support for new calls to handle panics and errors in the context where they occur. `PanicHandlers` and `ErrorHandlers` now must accept a context parameter for that. Log output is structured instead of unstructured. ([#121970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121970), [@po...

  - `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]

* Add aggregator_unavailable_apiservice_{count,gauge} metrics in the kube-aggregator. ([#71380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71380), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* Fixes apiserver nil pointer panics when requesting v2beta1 autoscaling object metrics ([#71744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71744), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

- 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]

### Bug or Regression

- EndpointSlice Mirroring controller now cleans up managed EndpointSlices when a Service selector is added (#106136, @robscott) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106124, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]
- Support more than 100 disk mounts on Windows (#105673, @andyzhangx) [SIG Storage and Windows]

## Dependencies

### Added