[registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.27.11](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-controller-manager) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-controller-manager-amd64), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-controller-manager-arm64), [ppc64le](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us...

- The `horizontalpodautoscaling` and `clusterrole-aggregation` controllers now assume the `autoscaling/v1` and `rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1` APIs are available. If you disable those APIs and do not want to run those controllers, exclude them by passing `--controllers=-horizontalpodautoscaling` or `--controllers=-clusterrole-aggregation` to `kube-controller-manager`. ([#117977](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117977), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

- The following roles have had `Watch` added to them (prefixed with `system:controller:`):
  
  - `cronjob-controller`
  - `endpoint-controller`
  - `endpointslice-controller`
  - `endpointslicemirroring-controller`
  - `horizontal-pod-autoscaler`
  - `node-controller`
  - `pod-garbage-collector`

- `kube-controller-manager` and `cloud-controller-manager` have changed the
  name of controllers that can be turned on/off that are passed to the `--controllers`
  flag (e.g., `pod-garbage-collector-controller`). The old names (eg `podgc`) are

[registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.25.16](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-controller-manager) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-controller-manager-amd64), [arm](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-controller-manager-arm), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube...

[registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy:v1.26.15](https://console.c...

  value other than `kubernetes.io/job-controller` - are skipped by the job controller, and their
  reconciliation is delegated to an external controller, indicated by the value of the field. Jobs that
  don't have this field at all, or where the field value is the reserved string `kubernetes.io/job-controller`,

[registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.31.12](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-controller-manager) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-controller-manager-amd64), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/ima...

- The following roles have had `Watch` added to them (prefixed with `system:controller:`):
  
  - `cronjob-controller`
  - `endpoint-controller`
  - `endpointslice-controller`
  - `endpointslicemirroring-controller`
  - `horizontal-pod-autoscaler`
  - `node-controller`
  - `pod-garbage-collector`

[registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.34.0](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-controller-manager) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/kube-controller-manager-amd64), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/ima...