- Kubeadm: graduate the command `kubeadm alpha kubeconfig user` to `kubeadm kubeconfig user`. The `kubeadm alpha kubeconfig user` command is deprecated now. ([#97583](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97583), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* [beta] SelfSubjectRulesReview, an API that lets a user see what actions they can perform with a namespace, has been added to the authorization.k8s.io API group. This bulk query is intended to enable UIs to show/hide actions based on the end user, and for users to quickly reason about their own permissions.

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-3177: Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using containers, init containers, and ephemeral containers with the envFrom field populated.

- Introduces new alpha functionality to the reflector, allowing user to enable API streaming.
  
  To activate this feature, users can set the `ENABLE_CLIENT_GO_WATCH_LIST_ALPHA` environmental variable.
  It is important to note that the server must support streaming for this feature to function properly.

### CSI Migration updates

CSI Migration enables the replacement of existing in-tree storage plugins such as `kubernetes.io/gce-pd` or `kubernetes.io/aws-ebs` with a corresponding CSI driver.
If CSI Migration is working properly, Kubernetes end users shouldn’t notice a difference.

- It is possible to configure the IDs that the Kubelet uses to create user namespaces.
  
  
  User namespaces support is a Beta feature now. ([#123593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123593), [@giuseppe](https://github.com/giuseppe)) [SIG Node]

- Users who look at iptables dumps will see some changes in the naming and structure of rules. ([#109060](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109060), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin)) [SIG Network and Testing]

### Uncategorized

- Adds feature gate `KubeletInUserNamespace` which enables support for running kubelet in a user namespace.
  
  The user namespace has to be created before running kubelet.
  All the node components such as CRI need to be running in the same user namespace.
  

### CVE-2022-3294: Node address isn't always verified when proxying

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can to modify Node objects and send requests proxying through them.

 - `kubeadm`: a separate "super-admin.conf" file is now deployed. The User in `admin.conf` is now bound to a new RBAC Group `kubeadm:cluster-admins` that has `cluster-admin` `ClusterRole` access. The User in `super-admin.conf` is now bound to the `system:masters` built-in super-powers / break-glass Group that can bypass RBAC. Before this change, the default `admin.conf` was bound to `system:masters`...