* Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

*   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...

* kube-proxy: feature gates are now specified as a map when provided via a JSON or YAML KubeProxyConfiguration, rather than as a string of key-value pairs. For example:

KubeProxyConfiguration Before:

```
apiVersion: kubeproxy.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1
kind: KubeProxyConfiguration
**featureGates: "SupportIPVSProxyMode=true"**
```

## Changelog since v1.27.5

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Fixed a bug where CEL expressions in CRD validation rules would incorrectly compute a high estimated cost for functions that return strings, lists or maps.

- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

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- Kubectl can now use http caching for the OpenAPI schema. The cache
  directory can be configured by passing the `--cache-dir` command line flag to kubectl.
  If set to an empty string, caching is disabled.

- Kubectl now performs validation against OpenAPI schema instead of Swagger 1.2. If
  OpenAPI is not available on the server, it falls back to the old Swagger 1.2.

## Changelog since v1.28.1

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Fixed a bug where CEL expressions in CRD validation rules would incorrectly compute a high estimated cost for functions that return strings, lists or maps.

- Prevent error message from being displayed when running kubectl plugin list and your path includes an empty string ([#87633](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87633), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG CLI]

- Introduces a new metric: `admission_webhook_request_total` with the following labels: name (string) - the webhook name, type (string) - the admission type, operation (string) - the requested verb, code (int) - the HTTP status code, rejected (bool) - whether the request was rejected, namespace (string) - the namespace of the requested resource. ([#103162](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103162), [@rmoriar1](https://github.com/rmoriar1))...