- Added the `SizeBasedListCostEstimate` feature gate (enabled by default), which changes how APF seats are assigned to `LIST` requests. With this feature, one seat is assigned per 100KB of data loaded into memory at once during a `LIST` operation. ([#132932](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132932), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_nominal_limit_seats`: Nominal number of execution seats configured for each priority level
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_lower_limit_seats`: Configured lower bound on number of execution seats available to each priority level
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_upper_limit_seats`: Configured upper bound on number of execution seats available to each priority level

scot

// search : Charleston Road Registry Inc.
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/search.html
search

// seat : SEAT, S.A. (Sociedad Unipersonal)
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/seat.html
seat

// secure : Amazon Registry Services, Inc.
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/secure.html
secure

// security : XYZ.COM LLC

- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#95725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95725), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

  - **apiserver_flowcontrol_priority_level_seat_count_samples**: histograms of seats occupied by executing requests (both regular and final-delay phases included), broken down by priority_level; the observations are taken once per millisecond.

- github.com/prometheus/tsdb: [v0.7.1](https://github.com/prometheus/tsdb/tree/v0.7.1)
- github.com/ryanuber/columnize: [9b3edd6](https://github.com/ryanuber/columnize/tree/9b3edd6)
- github.com/sean-/seed: [e2103e2](https://github.com/sean-/seed/tree/e2103e2)
- github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name/tree/v1.0.0)

- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#96153](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96153), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- Introduced new apiserver metric `apiserver_flowcontrol_current_inqueue_seats`. This metric is analogous to `apiserver_flowcontrol_current_inqueue_requests`, but tracks the total number of seats, as each request can take more than one seat. ([#119385](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119385), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- github.com/posener/complete: [v1.1.1](https://github.com/posener/complete/tree/v1.1.1)
- github.com/ryanuber/columnize: [9b3edd6](https://github.com/ryanuber/columnize/tree/9b3edd6)
- github.com/sean-/seed: [e2103e2](https://github.com/sean-/seed/tree/e2103e2)
- github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/spf13/cast: [v1.3.1](https://github.com/spf13/cast/tree/v1.3.1)

- Supporting Cross RG resources (disks, Azure File and node [Experimental]

Besides the above new features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Cluster-Autoscaler is now stable and considered GA:

- Azure virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) allow you to create and manage identical load balanced VMs that automatically increase or decrease based on demand or a set schedule.