* **NOTE:** Self-hosting will be the default way to host the control plane in the next release, v1.9

* [alpha] A new `phase` subcommand supports performing only subtasks of the full `kubeadm init` flow. Combined with fine-grained configuration, kubeadm is now more easily consumable by higher-level provisioning tools like kops or GKE. ([#356](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/356), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

- Fixes issue where AAD token obtained by kubectl is incompatible with on-behalf-of flow and oidc. The audience claim before this fix has "spn:" prefix. After this fix, "spn:" prefix is omitted. ([#86412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86412), [@weinong](https://github.com/weinong)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]...

* Fixes issue where AAD token obtained by kubectl is incompatible with on-behalf-of flow and oidc. ([#86412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86412), [@weinong](https://github.com/weinong))
    * The audience claim before this fix has "spn:" prefix. After this fix, "spn:" prefix is omitted.

- TLS timeouts have been extended to work around slow arm64 math/big functions. ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.29.4
  - kube-apiserver v1.28.9
  - kube-apiserver v1.27.13

This vulnerability was reported by tha3e1vl.


**CVSS Rating:** Low (2.7) [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.21.9

- Fix the regression with the slow pods termination. Before this fix pods may take an additional time to terminate - up to one minute. Reversing the change that ensured that CNI resources cleaned up when the pod is removed on API server. ([#97980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97980),...

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.29.4
  - kube-apiserver v1.28.9
  - kube-apiserver v1.27.13

This vulnerability was reported by tha3e1vl.


**CVSS Rating:** Low (2.7) [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

  For more information, see [#56357](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/56357).

*   Audit logging is slow because writes to the log are performed synchronously with requests to the log. This issue will be fixed in a future release.

  For more information, see [#53006](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53006).

### Other notable changes

* Extend TLS timeouts to work around slow arm64 math/big ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))

may occasionally increase the size of the cluster a bit more than it is actually needed, when there are
unschedulable pods, scale up is required and cloud provider is slow to set up networking for new nodes.
Anyway, the cluster should get back to the proper size after 10 min.

### Deployment