- As part of graduating the etcd encryption feature to beta, the configuration file referenced by `--encryption-provider-config` now uses `kind: EncryptionConfiguration` and `apiVersion: apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1`. Support for...

- Moved the `ImagePullIntent` and `ImagePulledRecord` objects used by the kubelet to track image pulls to the `v1beta1` API version. ([#132579](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132579), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG Auth and Node]

- Promoted JobSuccessPolicy E2E to Conformance ([#130658](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130658), [@tenzen-y](https://github.com/tenzen-y)) [SIG API Machinery,...

- kube-proxy uses field-selector clusterIP!=None on Services to avoid watching for Headless Services, reducing unnecessary network bandwidth ([#126769](https://github.com/k...

- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.16.10 (#106223, @cpanato) [SIG Cloud Provider, Instrumentation, Release and Testing]
- Update debian-base, debian-iptables, setcap images to pick up CVE fixes
  - Debian-base to v1.9.0
  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7
  - setcap to v2.0.4 (#106143, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Fixed an issue where the API server did not send impersonated UID to authentication webhooks. ([#116681](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116681), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.16.10 (#106224, @cpanato) [SIG Cloud Provider, Instrumentation, Release and Testing]
- Update debian-base, debian-iptables, setcap images to pick up CVE fixes
  - Debian-base to v1.9.0
  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7
  - setcap to v2.0.4 (#106147, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

  
  The annotation that informs about audit policy violations changed from `pod-security.kubernetes.io/audit` to `pod-security.kubernetes.io/audit-violation`. ([#105908](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105908), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz))
- The `/openapi/v3` endpoint will be populated with OpenAPI v3 if the feature flag is enabled ([#105945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105945), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))

- Kubernetes in now built with go1.18rc1 ([#107105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107105), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus))

   ([#123343](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123343), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander))
- Updated `distroless-iptables` to `v0.5.0`, debian-base to `bookworm-v1.0.1`, and setcap to `bookworm-v1.0.1`.
   ([#123170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123170), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))
- `NewVolumeManagerReconstruction` feature is now GA.