- Kubernetes is now built using Go 1.23.11 ([#132898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132898), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Changed the node restrictions to disallow the node to change it's ownerReferences. ([#133469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133469), [@natherz97](https://github.com/natherz97)) [SIG Auth]

## Dependencies

### Added

#### Node

- The deprecated kubelet security controls `AllowPrivileged`, `HostNetworkSources`, `HostPIDSources`, and `HostIPCSources` have been removed. Enforcement of these restrictions should be done through admission control (such as `PodSecurityPolicy`) instead. ([#77820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77820), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Added CEL runtime cost calculation into ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, matching the evaluation cost
  restrictions that already apply to CustomResourceDefinition.
  If rule evaluation uses more compute than the limit, the API server aborts the evaluation and the

- kube-apiserver: the `NodeRestriction` admission plugin now prevents kubelets from modifying `Node` labels prefixed with `node-restriction.kubernetes.io/`. The `node-restriction.kubernetes.io/` label prefix is reserved for cluster administrators to use for labeling `Node` objects to target workloads to nodes in a way that kubelets cannot modify or spoof. ([#68267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68267),...

* Scheduling conformance tests related to daemonsets should set the annotation that relaxes node selection restrictions, if any are set. This ensures conformance tests can run on a wider array of clusters. ([#68793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68793), [@aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))

- Kubernetes is now built using Go 1.24.5 ([#132897](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132897), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Changed the node restrictions to disallow the node to change it's ownerReferences. ([#133468](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133468), [@natherz97](https://github.com/natherz97)) [SIG Auth]

## Dependencies

### Added

### Bug or Regression

- Changed the node restrictions to disallow the node to change it's ownerReferences. ([#133467](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133467), [@natherz97](https://github.com/natherz97)) [SIG Auth]

* [Federation] HPA controller ([#45993](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45993), [@irfanurrehman](https://github.com/irfanurrehman))
* Relax restrictions on environment variable names. ([#48986](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48986), [@timoreimann](https://github.com/timoreimann))

* Scheduling conformance tests related to daemonsets should set the annotation that relaxes node selection restrictions, if any are set. This ensures conformance tests can run on a wider array of clusters. ([#68793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68793), [@aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))

    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.
* Scheduling conformance tests related to daemonsets should set the annotation that relaxes node selection restrictions, if any are set. This ensures conformance tests can run on a wider array of clusters. ([#68793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68793), [@aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))