admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account's secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

**Note**: This only impacts the cluster if the ServiceAccount admission plugin is used (most cluster should have this on by default...

- Declare Job as finished only after removing all Pod finalizers to avoid orphan Pods. ([#119159](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119159), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

- `readOnly` volumes now support recursive read-only mounts for kernel versions >= 5.12."
   ([#123180](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123180), [@AkihiroSuda](https://github.com/AkihiroSuda))
- cri-api: Implemented KEP-3857: Recursive Read-only (RRO) mounts.
   ([#123272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123272), [@AkihiroSuda](https://github.com/AkihiroSuda))

- Added a new `--init-only` command line flag to `kube-proxy`. Setting the flag makes `kube-proxy` perform its initial configuration that requires privileged mode, and then exit. The `--init-only` mode is intended to be executed in a privileged init container, so that the main container may run with a stricter `securityContext`. ([#120864](https://github.co...