- A bug was fixed in kubelet where exec probe timeouts were not respected. This may result in unexpected behavior since the default timeout (if not specified) is `1s` which may be too small for some exec probes. Ensure that pods relying on this behavior are updated to correctly handle probe timeouts. See [configure probe](https://docs.k8s.io/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#configure-probes) section of the documentation for more details.

- Fixed a startup probe race condition that caused main containers to remain stuck in "Initializing" state when sidecar containers with startup probes had failed initially but succeeded on restart in pods with `restartPolicy=Never`. ([#133072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133072), [@AadiDev005](https://github.com/AadiDev005))...

have both been migrated.

### gRPC Probes Graduate to Beta

With Kubernetes 1.24, the [gRPC probes functionality](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/2727)
has entered beta and is available by default. You can now [configure startup, liveness, and readiness probes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#configure-probes) for your gRPC app

- Fix: ignore non-VMSS error for VMAS nodes in `reconcileBackendPools`. ([#103997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103997), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Fix: leave the probe path empty for TCP probes ([#105253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105253), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

- Kubeadm: started using a named port 'probe-port' for all probes in the static pod manifests for kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler and etc. If you have previously patched the port values in probes with kubeadm patches, you must now also patch the named port value in the pod container under 'ports'. ([#132776](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132776),...

- Fixed an issue where kubelet does not set case-insensitive headers for http probes. (#117182, @dddddai) ([#117324](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117324), [@dddddai](https://github.com/dddddai)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Node]

- Single static pod files and pod files from http endpoints cannot be larger than 10 MB. HTTP probe payloads are now truncated to 10KB. ([#82669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82669), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))

- Updating kubelet permissions check for Windows nodes to see if process is elevated instead of checking if process owner is in Administrators group ([#111078](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111078), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

## Dependencies

### Added

for purposes such as debugging, similar to how `kubectl exec` runs a process in an existing container. Also like `kubectl exec`, no resources are reserved for ephemeral containers and they are not restarted when they exit. Note that container namespace targeting is not yet implemented, so [process namespace sharing](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/share-process-namespace/) must be enabled to view process from other containers in the pod. ([#59484](https://github.com/kuber...

  - Health check (liveness & readiness) probes using an HTTPGetAction will no longer follow redirects to different hostnames from the original probe request. Instead, these non-local redirects will be treated as a Success (the documented behavior). In this case an event with reason "ProbeWarning" will be generated, indicating that the redirect...