* The OpenID Connect authenticator can now use a custom prefix, or omit the default prefix, for username and groups claims through the --oidc-username-prefix and --oidc-groups-prefix flags. For example, the authenticator can map a user with the username "jane" to "google:jane" by supplying the "google:" username prefix. ([#50875](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50875), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- ServiceAccount metadata.annotations[kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets]: deprecated since v1.32; no removal deadline. Prefer separate namespaces to isolate access to mounted secrets. ([#128396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128396), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, CLI and Testing]

### API Change

- The prefer nominated node graduates to Beta and enabld by default. ([#102201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102201), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))

- Added a `--topology-manager-policy-options` flag to the kubelet to support fine tuning the topology manager policies. The first policy option, `prefer-closest-numa-nodes`, allows these policies to favor sets of NUMA nodes with shorter distance between nodes when making admission decisions. ([#112914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112914), [@PiotrProkop](https://github.com/PiotrProkop))...

Distributions or administrators of Kubernetes may want to control that new Service CIDRs added to the cluster do not overlap with other networks on the cluster, that only belong to a specific range of IPs. Administrators may also prefer to retain the existing behavior of only having one ServiceCIDR per cluster. You can use `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` to achieve this. ([#128971](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128971), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps, Architecture,...

[soft-reserve a range for static IP address assignments](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#service-ip-static-sub-range)
to Services.
With the manual enablement of this feature, the cluster will prefer automatic assignment from
the pool of Service IP addresses thereby reducing the risk of collision.

A Service `ClusterIP` can be assigned:

* The OpenID Connect authenticator can now use a custom prefix, or omit the default prefix, for username and groups claims through the --oidc-username-prefix and --oidc-groups-prefix flags. For example, the authenticator can map a user with the username "jane" to "google:jane" by supplying the "google:" username prefix. ([#50875](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50875), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Fixes issue where AAD token obtained by kubectl is incompatible with on-behalf-of flow and oidc. The audience claim before this fix has "spn:" prefix. After this fix, "spn:" prefix is omitted. ([#86412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86412), [@weinong](https://github.com/weinong)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

For detailed release notes on the three alpha features from SIG AWS, please refer to the following Changelogs:

- [aws-alb-ingress-controller v1.0.0](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-alb-ingress-controller/releases/tag/v1.0.0)

    * The audience claim before this fix has "spn:" prefix. After this fix, "spn:" prefix is omitted.
* fix: azure data disk should use same key as os disk by default ([#86351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86351), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))