- Kube-apiserver: fixed a 1.27+ regression watching a single namespace via the deprecated /api/v1/watch/namespaces/$name endpoint where watch events were not delivered after the watch was established. ([#125145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125145), [@xyz-li](https://github.com/xyz-li)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]...

- Added `UserNamespacesPodSecurityStandards` feature gate to enable user namespace support for Pod Security Standards.
  Enabling this feature will modify all Pod Security Standard rules to allow setting: `spec[.*].securityContext.[runAsNonRoot,runAsUser]`.
  This feature gate should only be enabled if all nodes in the cluster support the user namespace feature and have it enabled.

- Improve PVC Protection Controller's scalability by batch-processing PVCs by namespace with lazy live pod listing. ([#125372](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125372), [@hungnguyen243](https://github.com/hungnguyen243)) [SIG Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]

- When using `kubectl logs <pod-name>` and the pod is not found, the error message now includes the namespace. Previously, the message would be "Error from server (NotFound): pods "my-pod-name" not found". Now, it reflects the namespace in the message as follows: "Error from server (NotFound): pods "my-pod-name" not found in namespace "default"".
   ([#120111](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120111), [@newtondev](https://github.com/newtondev))

- The deprecated flag `--lock-object-namespace` and `--lock-object-name` have been removed from kube-scheduler. Please use `--leader-elect-resource-namespace` and `--leader-elect-resource-name` or ComponentConfig instead to configure those parameters. ([#119130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119130), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))...