- Kubeadm: improved retries when updating node information, in case `kube-apiserver` is temporarily unavailable ([#114176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114176), [@QuantumEnergyE](https://github.com/QuantumEnergyE))

* [stable] Expose storage usage metrics

  * The available capacity of a given Persistent Volume (PV) is available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API.

* [stable] Volume plugin metrics

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### Container Images

All container images are available as manifest lists and support the described
architectures. It is also possible to pull a specific architecture directly by
adding the "-$ARCH" suffix  to the container image name.

name | architectures

- Fixed error "dbus: connection closed by user" after dbus daemon restarts. ([#110496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110496), [@kolyshkin](https://github.com/kolyshkin))
- Fixed image pull failure when `IMDS` is unavailable in kubelet startup. ([#110523](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110523), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

    - [Signing Release Artifacts](#signing-release-artifacts)
    - [OpenAPI v3](#openapi-v3)
    - [Storage Capacity and Volume Expansion Are Generally Available](#storage-capacity-and-volume-expansion-are-generally-available)
    - [NonPreemptingPriority to Stable](#nonpreemptingpriority-to-stable)
    - [Storage Plugin Migration](#storage-plugin-migration)

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- Removed the generally available feature gate `ExpandedDNSConfig`.
   ([#122086](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122086), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni))
- Removed the generally available feature gate `KubeletPodResourcesGetAllocatable`.
   ([#122138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122138), [@ii2day](https://github.com/ii2day))
- Removed the generally available feature gate `KubeletPodResources`.