- Added the `applyconfiguration` generator to the code-generator script that generates server-side apply configuration and client APIs ([#114987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114987), [@astefanutti](https://github.com/astefanutti))

* Fix incorrect retry logic in scheduler ([#50106](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50106), [@julia-stripe](https://github.com/julia-stripe))
* Enforce explicit references to API group client interfaces in clientsets to avoid ambiguity. ([#49370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49370), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Projects which use k8s.io/code-generator and invoke `generate-groups` or `generate-internal-groups.sh` have a new, simpler script (`kube_codegen.sh`) they can use.  The old scripts are deprecated but remain intact. ([#117262](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117262), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

- Custom resource requests with `fieldValidation=Strict` consistently require `apiVersion` and `kind`, matching non-strict requests ([#109019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109019), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  - `node_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  - `node_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `pod_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  - `pod_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `resource_scrape_error`
  
  Deprecated (renamed) `scrape_error` in favor of `resource_scrape_error` ([#116897](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116897), [@Richabanker](https://github.com/Richabanker)) [SIG Architecture, Instrumentation, Node and Testing]

- If `ComponentSLIs` feature gate is enabled, then `/metrics/slis` now becomes available on cloud-controller-manager allowing you to scrape health check metrics. ([#113340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113340), [@Richabanke...