- Client-go: fixed potential data races retrying requests using a custom `io.Reader` body; with this fix, only requests with no body or with `string` / `[]byte` / `runtime.Object` bodies can be retried ([#113933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113933), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixed a 1.32 regression kube-proxy, when using a Service with External or LoadBalancer IPs on UDP services , was consuming a large amount of CPU because it was not filtering by the Service destination port and trying to delete all the UDP entries associated to the service. ([#130484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130484), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network]

*   The Kubelet's feature gates are now specified as a map when provided via a JSON or YAML KubeletConfiguration, rather than as a string of key-value pairs, making them less awkward for users. ([#53025](https://github.com/kubernete...

* Fixes a bug where kubelet crashes trying to free memory under memory pressure. ([#58574](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58574), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

* fix azure file plugin failure issue on Windows after node restart ([#60625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60625), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Get parent dir via canonical absolute path when trying to judge mount-point ([#58433](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58433), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

- OIDC authentication will now fail if the username asserted based on a CEL expression config is the empty string.  Previously the request would be authenticated with the username set to the empty string. ([#123568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123568), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

- Kubeadm: fix a bug when using external CA mode and trying to upgrade to 1.29 using "kubeadm upgrade apply". Show a warning that kubeadm cannot sign the new "super-admin.conf" as the host does not have a CA and show some instructions on how to manually migrate to the separate "admin.conf" and "super-admin.conf"...

* fix the error prone account creation method of blob disk ([#59739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59739), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Get parent dir via canonical absolute path when trying to judge mount-point ([#58433](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58433), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

  - update distroless-iptables to v0.4.6 ([#123772](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123772), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix error when trying to expand a volume that does not require node expansion ([#123055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123055), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Node and Storage]

* Allow missing keys in templates by default ([#39486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39486), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))
* Add error message when trying to use clusterrole with namespace in kubectl ([#36424](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36424), [@xilabao](https://github.com/xilabao))