- Vendor: updated system-validators to v1.9.0. ([#128149](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128149), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Node]
- Vendor: updated system-validators to v1.9.1. ([#128533](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128533), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

 - ACTION REQUIRED:
  
  vendor: Updated `k8s.io/system-validators` to `v1.12.1`. The cgroups validator now throws an error instead of a warning if cgroups v1 is detected on the host and the provided KubeletVersion is `v1.35` or newer.
  

- The `StructuredAuthenticationConfiguration` feature is now beta and enabled. ([#123719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123719), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))
- The `kube_codegen` tool now ignores the vendor folder during code generation.
   ([#122729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122729), [@jparrill](https://github.com/jparrill))

### Other notable changes

* Update dashboard version to v1.6.0 ([#43210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43210), [@floreks](https://github.com/floreks))
* Update photon controller go SDK in vendor code. ([#43108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43108), [@luomiao](https://github.com/luomiao))

### Bug or Regression

- ## Changelog
  
  ### General
  - Fix priority expander falling back to a random choice even though there is a higher priority option to choose
  - Clone `kubernetes/kubernetes` in `update-vendor.sh` shallowly, instead of fetching all revisions
  - Speed up binpacking by reducing the number of PreFilter calls (call once per pod instead of #pods*#nodes times)

### Storage

rhcloud.com

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instances.spawn.cc

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// Submitted by Anurag Goel <dev@render.com>
onrender.com
app.render.com

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replit.app
id.replit.app
firewalledreplit.co

### Bug or Regression

- ## Changelog
  
  ### General
  - Fix priority expander falling back to a random choice even though there is a higher priority option to choose
  - Clone `kubernetes/kubernetes` in `update-vendor.sh` shallowly, instead of fetching all revisions
  - Speed up binpacking by reducing the number of PreFilter calls (call once per pod instead of #pods*#nodes times)

* Bugfix: OpenAPI models may not get group-version-kind extension if kubernetes is vendored in another project (e.g. minikube). Kubectl 1.8 needs this extension to work with those projects. ([#53152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53152), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))

*   `conversion-gen` is now usable in a context without a vendored k8s.io/kubernetes. The Kubernetes core API is removed from `default extra-peer-dirs`. ([#54394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54394),[ @sttts](https://github.com/sttts))