- CRI client now used the default timeout for `ImageFsInfo` RPC. ([#128052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128052), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

- Prevent watch cache starvation by moving its watch to separate RPC and add a SeparateCacheWatchRPC feature flag to disable this behavior ([#123693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123693), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy)) [SIG API Machinery]

- github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy: [v0.2.3](https://github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy/tree/v0.2.3)
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api: 1aefcd6
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc: 28d5490

### Changed
- cloud.google.com/go/bigquery: v1.8.0 → v1.50.0
- cloud.google.com/go/datastore: v1.1.0 → v1.11.0
- cloud.google.com/go/firestore: v1.1.0 → v1.9.0

- golang.org/x/time: v0.7.0 → v0.9.0
- google.golang.org/appengine: v1.6.7 → v1.4.0
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api: f6391c0 → e6fa225
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc: f6391c0 → e6fa225
- google.golang.org/grpc: v1.65.0 → v1.68.1
- google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.35.1 → v1.36.5
- k8s.io/gengo/v2: 2b36238 → 1244d31
- k8s.io/kube-openapi: 32ad38e → c8a335a

- go.opentelemetry.io/otel: v1.33.0 → v1.35.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp: v1.4.0 → v1.5.0
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api: e6fa225 → a0af3ef
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc: e6fa225 → a0af3ef
- google.golang.org/grpc: v1.68.1 → v1.72.1
- k8s.io/gengo/v2: 1244d31 → 85fd79d
- k8s.io/kube-openapi: c8a335a → f3f2b99
- k8s.io/system-validators: v1.9.1 → v1.10.1
- k8s.io/utils: 3ea5e8c → 4c0f3b2

- Prevent watch cache starvation by moving its watch to separate RPC and add a SeparateCacheWatchRPC feature flag to disable this behavior ([#123694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123694), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Prevented watch cache starvation by moving its watch to separate RPC. Added a `SeparateCacheWatchRPC` feature flag to disable this behavior. ([#123532](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123532), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

* In anticipation of CSI 1.0 in the next release, Kubernetes 1.12 calls the CSI `NodeGetInfo` RPC instead of `NodeGetId` RPC. Ensure your CSI Driver implements `NodeGetInfo(...)` before upgrading to 1.12. [@saad-ali](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/68688)

- golang.org/x/tools: v0.18.0 → e35e4cc
- google.golang.org/api: v0.126.0 → v0.13.0
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api: 23370e0 → 5315273
- google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc: b8732ec → f6361c8
- google.golang.org/genproto: f966b18 → b8732ec
- google.golang.org/grpc: v1.58.3 → v1.65.0
- google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.33.0 → v1.34.2
- honnef.co/go/tools: v0.0.1-2020.1.4 → v0.0.1-2019.2.3

### Introducing Graceful Node Shutdown (Alpha)