- The underlying format of the `CPUManager` state file has changed. Upgrades should be seamless, but any third-party tools that rely on reading the previous format need to be updated. ([#84462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84462), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska)) [SIG Node and Testing]

### API Change

- '`kube-apiserver`: adds `--authentication-config` flag for reading `AuthenticationConfiguration`
  files. `--authentication-config` flag is mutually exclusive with the existing `--oidc-*`

- Fixed file permission issues that happened during update of `Secret`/`ConfigMap`/`projected volume` when `fsGroup` is used. The problem caused a race condition where application gets intermittent permission denied error when reading files that were just updated, before the correct permissions were applied. ([#114464](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114464), [@tsaarni](https://github.com/tsaarni))

- Check for newer resize fields when deciding recovery feature's status in kubelet ([#131437](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131437), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]
- Disable reading of disk geometry before calling expansion for ext and xfs filesystems ([#131636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131636), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]

- Disabled reading of disk geometry before calling expansion for ext and xfs filesystems. ([#131568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131568), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

### API Change

- 'ACTION REQUIRED: The Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) driver's DaemonSet
  must be deployed with a service account that enables writing ResourceSlice
  and reading ResourceClaim objects.'
   ([#125163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125163), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Auth, Node and Testing]

- Since golang 1.17 both net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR rejects leading zeros in the dot-decimal notation of IPv4 addresses,
  Kubernetes will keep allowing leading zeros on IPv4 address to not break the compatibility.
  IMPORTANT: Kubernetes interprets leading zeros on IPv4 addresses as decimal, users must not rely on parser alignment to not being impacted by the associated security advisory:

* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Deduplicate PATH items when reading plugins. ([#69089](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69089), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

CustomResourceDefinitions also have new support for defaulting, with defaults specified using the `default` keyword in the OpenAPI validation schema. Defaults are set for unspecified fields in an object sent to the API, and when reading from etcd.

Defaulting will be available as alpha in Kubernetes 1.15 and requires structural schemas.

#### CustomResourceDefinition OpenAPI Publishing

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.32.0 - v1.32.5
  - kube-apiserver v1.33.0 - v1.33.1

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.32.6
  - kube-apiserver v1.33.2