- Resolves bottleneck in internal API server communication that can cause increased goroutines and degrade API Server performance ([#80465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80465), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))

  // as it may have been resolved by the runtime.
  // More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/containers/images.
  optional string image = 6;

  // ImageID is the image ID of the container's image. The image ID may not
  // match the image ID of the image used in the PodSpec, as it may have been
  // resolved by the runtime.
  optional string imageID = 7;

- Resolved a performance issue in the node authorizer index maintenance. ([#87693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87693), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Auth]

* Resolves bottleneck in internal API server communication that can cause increased goroutines and degrade API Server performance ([#80465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80465), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))

*   You can now add "options" to the host's /etc/resolv.conf (or --resolv-conf), and they will be copied into pod's resolv.conf when dnsPolicy is Default. Being able to customize options is important because it is common to leverage options to fine-tune the behavior of DNS client. ([#54773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54773),[...

- Resolves a regression in 1.19+ with workloads targeting deprecated beta os/arch labels getting stuck in NodeAffinity status on node startup. ([#96810](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96810), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Node]

* Resolves bottleneck in internal API server communication that can cause increased goroutines and degrade API Server performance ([#80465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80465), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))

### Feature

- A ValidatingAdmissionPolicy now has its `messageExpression` field checked against resolved types. ([#119209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119209), [@jiahuif](https://github.com/jiahuif)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Resolves a spurious "Unknown discovery response content-type" error in client-go discovery requests by tolerating extra content-type parameters in API responses ([#117637](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117637), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3))...

- Recreate DaemonSet pods completed with Succeeded phase ([#117496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117496), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps and Testing]