- Added `started_user_namespaced_pods_total` and `started_user_namespaced_pods_errors_total` for tracking the successes and failures in creating pods if a user namespace was requested. ([#132902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132902), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Added a new metric `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reloads_total` to measure the total number of API server encryption configuration reload successes and failures.  This metric now contains the `status` label with a value that is either `success` or `failure`. Deprecated the metrics `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_success_total` and `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_failure_total`. Please use...

- Applyconfiguration-gen no longer generates duplicate methods and ambiguous member accesses when types end up with multiple members of the same name (through embedded structs). ([#127001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127001), [@skitt](https://github.com/skitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Adds a new "storage_operation_status_count" metric for kube-controller-manager and kubelet to count success and error statues. ([#75750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75750), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### **Kubernetes API**
#### User Provided Extensions

* remove the elasticsearch template ([#45952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45952), [@harryge00](https://github.com/harryge00))

- Applying fix for not tagging static public IP. ([#101752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101752), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Applying fix so that deleting non-existing disk returns success. ([#102083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102083), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Added a new `storage_operation_status_count` metric for kube-controller-manager and kubelet to count success and error statues. ([#75750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75750), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### Deprecated/changed metrics

### Misc