- Removed the feature flag for probe-level termination grace period from Kubelet. If a user wants to disable this feature on already created pods, they will have to delete and recreate the pods. ([#103168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103168), [@raisaat](https://github.com/raisaat)) [SIG Apps and Node]

level no longer requires pods that set .spec.os.name="windows" to also set Linux-specific securityContext fields. If a 1.25+ cluster has unsupported [out-of-skew](https://kubernetes.io/releases/version-skew-policy/#kubelet) nodes prior to v1.23 and wants to ensure namespaces enforcing the `restricted` policy continue to require Linux-specific securityContext fields on all pods, ensure a version of the `restricted` prior to v1.25 is selected by labeling the namespace (for example, `pod-security.kub...

* kubeadm has removed the `.ImagePullPolicy` field in the v1alpha2 API version. Instead it's set statically to `IfNotPresent` for all required images. If you want to always pull the latest images before cluster init (as `Always` would do), run `kubeadm config images pull` before each `kubeadm init`. If you don't want the kubelet to pull any images at `kubeadm init` time, for example if you don't have an internet connection, you can also run `kubeadm config images pull` before `kubeadm...

able to place limits by using the new kubelet command line parameter --pod-max-pids. Note that since this is a alpha feature they will need to enable the "SupportPodPidsLimit" feature. By default, we do not set any maximum limit, If an administrator wants to enable this, they should enable SupportPodPidsLimit=true in the --feature-gates= parameter to kubelet and specify the limit using the --pod-max-pids parameter. The limit set is the total count of all processes running in all containers in the pod....

Starting Kubernetes 1.33, only users with access to an admin namespace with the `kubernetes.io/dra-admin-access` label are authorized to create ResourceClaim or ResourceClaimTemplate objects with the `adminAccess` field in this admin namespace if they want to and only they can reference these ResourceClaims or ResourceClaimTemplates in their pod or deployment specs. ([#130225](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130225), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth,...

#### **Audit**

- `kubelet` , when using `--cloud-provider=external`, will now initialize the node addresses with the value of `--node-ip` , if it exists, or waits for the cloud provider to assign the addresses. ([#121028](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121028), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

   ([#121954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121954), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))
- The watch cache now waits until it is at least as fresh as the given requestedWatchRV if sendInitialEvents was requested.
   ([#122830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122830), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

* Kubeadm now includes CoreDNS version 1.6.5 ([#85108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85108), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))
    *  - `kubernetes` plugin adds metrics to measure kubernetes control plane latency.
    *  -  the `health` plugin now includes the `lameduck` option by default, which waits for a duration before shutting down.

- The CSI volume plugin stopped watching the VolumeAttachment object if the object is not found or the volume is not attached when kubelet waits for a volume attached. In the past, it would fail due to missing permission. ([#126961](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126961), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Storage]