- E2e.test and e2e_node.test: tests which depend on alpha or beta feature gates now have `Feature:Alpha` or `Feature:Beta` as Ginkgo labels. The inline text is `[Alpha]` or `[Beta]`, as before. ([#124350](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124350), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Testing]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Added a new filed `Step` in the testing framework to allow volume expansion in configurable step sizes for tests. ([#134760](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134760), [@Rishita-Golla](https://github.com/Rishita-Golla)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

- Replaced deprecated package `k8s.io/utils/pointer` with `k8s.io/utils/ptr` for ./test/e2e and ./test/utils. ([#132763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132763), [@PatrickLaabs](https://github.com/PatrickLaabs)) [SIG Autoscaling and Testing]

  - The metric job_pod_finished_total counts the number of finished pods tracked by the job controller (#105197, @alculquicondor) [SIG Apps, Instrumentation and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Fixes hostpath storage e2e tests within SELinux enabled env (#104551, @Elbehery) [SIG Testing]

### Bug or Regression

### Bug or Regression

- Adjusted the conformance test for the ServiceCIDR API to not test Patch/Update,
  since they are listed as ineligible_endpoints for conformance. ([#133642](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133642), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.23.0 ([#127076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127076), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]
- Kubernetes was built with Go 1.23.1. ([#127611](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127611), [@haitch](https://github.com/haitch)) [SIG Release and Testing]

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.20.1 ([#115828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115828), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]
- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.20.2 ([#116404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116404), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

- Kubernetes is now built with Go 1.20.9 ([#121025](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121025), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- 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

- Fixes hostpath storage e2e tests within SELinux enabled env (#105787, @Elbehery) [SIG Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Promote PodHostIPs condition to beta. ([#120257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120257), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]
- Promote PodHostIPs condition to beta. ([#121477](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121477), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Network and Testing]