* which is commonly used for Kerberos-based authentication in Windows environments.
 * It handles the negotiation between client and server to establish a secure
 * authentication context without requiring users to explicitly enter credentials.
 *
 * The authenticator supports various configuration options including delegation,
 * basic authentication fallback, and localhost authentication bypass.
 */

that allows it to track container images and the list of authentication information that leads to their successful pulls. This data is persisted across reboots of the host and restarts of the kubelet.
  
  The kubelet ensures any image requiring credential verification is always pulled if authentication information from an image pull is not yet present, thus enforcing authentication / re-authentication. This means an image pull might be attempted even in cases where a pod requests the `IfNotPresent`...

feature to support referencing counter sets across ResourceSlices within the same resource pool. Devices from incomplete pools were no longer considered for allocation. This change introduced backwards-incompatible updates to the alpha feature, requiring any ResourceSlices using it to be removed before upgrading or downgrading between v1.34 and v1.35. ([#134189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134189), [@mortent](https://github.com/mortent)) [SIG API Machinery, Node, Scheduling and...

- Removed an inaccurate statement about requiring ports when the Pod spec `hostNetwork` field was set. ([#130994](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130994), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Network and Node]