* Fix false positive "meaningful conflict" detection for strategic merge patch with integer values. ([#44788](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44788), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

		* Restored the ability of kubectl running inside a pod to consume resource files specifying a different namespace than the one the pod is running in. ([#44862](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44862), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* kubeadm - fix upgrades with external etcd ([#63925](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63925), [@detiber](https://github.com/detiber))

* Add extra-args configs to kubernetes-worker charm ([#55334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55334), [@Cynerva](https://github.com/Cynerva))
* Restored kube-proxy's support for 0 values for conntrack min, max, max per core, tcp close wait timeout, and tcp established timeout. ([#55261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55261), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))

* Restored the pre-1.10 behavior of the openstack cloud provider, which uses the instance name as the Kubernetes Node name. This requires instances be named with RFC-1123 compatible names. ([#63903](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63903), [@l...

- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2: [v1.30.1](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/tree/v1.30.1)
- github.com/aws/smithy-go: [v1.20.3](https://github.com/aws/smithy-go/tree/v1.20.3)
- github.com/checkpoint-restore/go-criu/v6: [v6.3.0](https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/go-criu/tree/v6.3.0)
- github.com/containerd/containerd/api: [v1.7.19](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/tree/api/v1.7.19)

* Restored cAdvisor prometheus metrics to the main port -- a regression that existed in v1.7.0-v1.7.2 ([#49079](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49079), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- DRA: The scheduler plugin prevented abnormal filter runtimes by timing out after 10 seconds. This was configurable via the plugin configuration's `FilterTimeout`. Setting it to zero disabled the timeout and restored the behavior of Kubernetes <= 1.33. ([#132033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132033), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Node, Scheduling and Testing]

* kube-scheduler: restores ability to run without authentication configuration lookup permissions ([#71755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Restores --username and --password flags to kubectl ([#75451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75451), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Removed
- github.com/asaskevich/govalidator: [f61b66f](https://github.com/asaskevich/govalidator/tree/f61b66f)
- github.com/checkpoint-restore/go-criu/v6: [v6.3.0](https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/go-criu/tree/v6.3.0)
- github.com/containerd/console: [v1.0.4](https://github.com/containerd/console/tree/v1.0.4)
- github.com/go-kit/log: [v0.2.1](https://github.com/go-kit/log/tree/v0.2.1)