*   Added extra-args configs to kubernetes-worker charm ([#55334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55334),[ @Cynerva](https://github.com/Cynerva))

#### **Other**

*   Base images have been bumped to Debian Stretch (9) ([#52744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52744),[ @rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))

* Ensure euqiv hash calculation is per schedule ([#59245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59245), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

* Upped the timeout for apiserver communication in the juju kubernetes-worker charm. ([#59219](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59219), [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346))

- Golang.org/x/net is bumped to v0.23.0 to address CVE-2023-45288 ([#124178](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124178), [@MadhavJivrajani](https://github.com/MadhavJivrajani)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation,...

### Kustomize Updates in Kubectl

[Kustomize](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize) version in kubectl had a jump from v2.0.3 to [v4.0.5](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98946). Kustomize is now treated as a library and future updates will be less sporadic.

### Default Container Annotation

* kubeadm allows the kubelets in the cluster to automatically renew their client certificates ([#53252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53252), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
* Bumped Heapster version to 1.4.3 - more details https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/releases/tag/v1.4.3. ([#53377](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53377), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to 0.2.6 based on Go 1.20.6. ([#119365](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119365), [@xmudrii](https://github.com/xmudrii))
- Bumped metrics-server to `v0.6.3`. ([#117120](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117120), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet))

- Updated defaultbackend image to 1.5. Users should concentrate on updating scripts to the new version. ([#69120](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69120), [@aledbf](https://github.com/aledbf))
- Bumped Dashboard version to v1.10.0 ([#68450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68450), [@jeefy](https://github.com/jeefy))

- Kubernetes 1.24 bumped version of golang it is compiled with to go1.18, which introduced significant changes to its garbage collection algorithm. As a result, we observed an increase in memory usage for kube-apiserver in larger an heavily loaded clusters up to ~25% (with...

- Migrated scheduler files `comparer.go`, `dumper.go`, `node_tree.go` to structured logging ([#105968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105968), [@shivanshu1333](https://github.com/shivanshu1333)) [SIG Instrumentation and Scheduling]

### GCP

- [stackdriver addon] Bumped prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
[fluentd-gcp addon] Bumped prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.