* The namespace API object no longer supports the deletecollection operation, which was previously allowed by mistake and did not respect expected namespace lifecycle semantics. ([#47098](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47098), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixed kubelet logging to properly respect verbosity levels. Previously, some debug/info messages using V().Error() would always be printed regardless of the configured log verbosity. ([#136434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136434), [@thc1006](https://github.com/thc1006))...

- Bump distroless-iptables to 0.2.8 based on Go 1.20.11 ([#121975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121975), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Testing]
- Makefile and scripts now respect GOTOOLCHAIN and otherwise ensure ./.go-version is used ([#122076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122076), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release and Testing]

## Dependencies

  metrics API. Deploy `metrics-server` as an add-on in the same way that you deploy Heapster.

##### Cluster Autoscaler

* Cluster autoscaler is now GA
* Cluster support size is increased to 1000 nodes
* Respect graceful pod termination of up to 10 minutes
* Handle zone stock-outs and failures
* Improve monitoring and error reporting

#### Container Runtime Interface (CRI)

- Register/Deregister Targets in chunks for AWS TargetGroup ([#101592](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101592), [@M00nF1sh](https://github.com/M00nF1sh)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- StatefulSet autodelete will respect controlling owners on PVC claims as described in https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/4375 ([#125389](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125389), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Mount-utils: treat syscall.ENODEV as corrupted mount ([#126174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126174), [@dobsonj](https://github.com/dobsonj)) [SIG Storage]
- StatefulSet autodelete will respect controlling owners on PVC claims as described in https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/4375 ([#126580](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126580), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary)) [SIG Apps, Storage and Testing]

- Fix Azurefile volumeid collision issue in csi migration ([#107575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107575), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix e2e test "Services should respect internalTrafficPolicy=Local Pod and Node, to Pod (hostNetwork: true)" ([#107902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107902), [@xueqzhan](https://github.com/xueqzhan)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- api-machinery utility functions `SetTransportDefaults` and `DialerFor` once again respect custom Dial functions set on transports ([#65547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Introduced PodHasNetwork condition for pods. ([#111358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111358), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))
- Introduced support for handling pod failures with respect to the configured pod failure policy rules. ([#111113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111113), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))