- Kubelet allows pods to use the `net.ipv4.ip_local_reserved_ports` sysctl by default and the minimal kernel version is 3.16; Pod Security admission allows this sysctl in v1.27+ versions of the baseline and restricted policies. ([#115374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115374), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Auth, Network...

* [Federation][kubefed]: Use StorageClassName for etcd pvc ([#46323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46323), [@marun](https://github.com/marun))
* Restrict active deadline seconds max allowed value to be maximum uint32 ([#46640](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46640), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

- VSphere releases less than 7.0u2 are deprecated as of v1.24. Please consider upgrading vSphere to 7.0u2 or above. vSphere CSI Driver requires minimum vSphere 7.0u2.

- Added the `disable-force-detach` CLI option for `kube-controller-manager`. By default, it's set to `false`. When enabled, it prevents force detaching volumes based on maximum unmount time and node status. If activated, the non-graceful node shutdown feature must be used to recover from node failure. Additionally, if a pod needs to be forcibly terminated at the risk of corruption, the appropriate VolumeAttachment object...

- Clarified the CFS quota as 100ms in the code comments and set the minimum `cpuCFSQuotaPeriod` to 1ms to match Linux kernel expectations. ([#112123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112123), [@paskal](https://github.com/paskal))

- `kubelet` , when using `--cloud-provider=external`, will now initialize the node addresses...