- Fixes the bug in PodTopologySpread that only happens with QHint enabled, 

* kube-apiserver now drops unneeded path information if an older version of Windows kubectl sends it. ([#44421](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44421), [@mml](https://github.com/mml))


#### Application autoscaling

   ([#122614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122614), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn))
- kubeadm: fixed a bug where "kubeadm upgrade plan -o yaml|json" included unneeded output and was missing component config information.
   ([#123492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123492), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

* kube-apiserver now drops unneeded path information if an older version of Windows kubectl sends it. ([#44421](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44421), [@mml](https://github.com/mml))

* On AttachDetachController node status update, do not retry when node doesn't exist but keep the node entry in cache. ([#50806](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50806), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))
* Prevent unneeded endpoint updates ([#50934](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50934), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith))

  - Speed up binpacking by reducing the number of PreFilter calls (call once per pod instead of #pods*#nodes times)
  - Speed up finding unneeded nodes by 5x+ in very large clusters by reducing the number of PreFilter calls
  - Expose `--max-nodes-total` as a metric
  - Errors in `IncreaseSize` changed from type `apiError` to `cloudProviderError`

* Updated Container Storage Interface specification version to v0.3.0 ([#64719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64719), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))
* Kubeadm: Make CoreDNS run in read-only mode and drop all unneeded privileges  ([#64473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64473), [@nberlee](https://github.com/nberlee))

  - Speed up binpacking by reducing the number of PreFilter calls (call once per pod instead of #pods*#nodes times)
  - Speed up finding unneeded nodes by 5x+ in very large clusters by reducing the number of PreFilter calls
  - Expose `--max-nodes-total` as a metric
  - Errors in `IncreaseSize` changed from type `apiError` to `cloudProviderError`

  before updating a cluster where resourceclaims, resourceclaimtemplates, deviceclasses, or resourceslices might have been stored using Kubernetes < 1.32, delete all of those resources before updating and recreate them as needed while running Kubernetes >= 1.32. ([#132000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132000), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Etcd, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

- Improved how the API server responds to **list** requests where the response format negotiates to Protobuf. List responses in Protobuf are marshalled one element at the time, drastically reducing memory needed to serve large collections. Streaming list responses can be disabled via the `StreamingCollectionEncodingToProtobuf` feature gate. ([#129407](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129407), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API...