- The `/flagz` endpoint in kube-apiserver now correctly returns parsed flag values when the `ComponentFlagz` feature-gate is enabled. ([#130328](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130328), [@richabanker](https://github.com/richabanker)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

* [beta] [CRI-O](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o) v1.0.0-alpha.0. It has passed all e2e tests. ([release notes](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.0))

* [beta] [Frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti) v1.0. It has passed all node conformance tests. ([release notes](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti/releases/tag/v1.0))



### **Scheduling**

   ([#122292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122292), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- JWTs used in service account and OIDC authentication are now strictly parsed to confirm that they use compact serialization. Other encodings were not previously accepted, but would result in different unspecific errors. ([#123540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123540), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.32+ regression validating OIDC and anonymous authentication flags are mutually exclusive to authentication configuration. Fixes an issue where the kube-apiserver `/flagz` endpoint would not respond correctly with parsed flags value. ([#130332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130332), [@richabanker](https://github.com/richabanker)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Simple script based hyperkube image that bundles all the necessary binaries. This is an equivalent replacement for the image based on the go based hyperkube command + image. ([#84662](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84662), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- `Kubectl set resources` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. `kubectl set subject` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. ([#85490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85490), [@sallyom](https://github.com/sallyom)) [SIG CLI]

### Bug or Regression

- Adding (dry run) and (server dry run) suffixes to kubectl scale command when dry-run is passed ([#114252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114252), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to `0.3.2` based on Go `1.21.1`. ([#120527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120527), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))
- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to `0.3.3` based on Go `1.21.2`. ([#121073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121073), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))

  * Passed all the Kubernetes 1.7 end-to-end conformance test suites.
  * Verification against Kubernetes 1.8 is planned soon after the release.

* [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): CRI implementation for hypervisor-based runtimes is now v1.1. [[@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)]

- The Pods and Pod controllers that are exempted from the PodSecurity admission process are now marked with the `pod-security.kubernetes.io/exempt: user/namespace/runtimeClass` annotation, based on what caused the exemption.
  
  The enforcement level that allowed or denied a Pod during PodSecurity admission is now marked by the `pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce-policy` annotation.