- [`KT-57284`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-57284) K2: compiler codegen crash at property initialization in constructor after smartcast of dispatch receiver to indirectly derived type
- [`KT-57221`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-57221) K2: compiler FIR2IR crash on function's unavailable cached type parameter

* Check if container memory stats are available before accessing it ([#77656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77656), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))
* client-go and kubectl no longer write cached discovery files with world-accessible file permissions ([#77874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77874), [@yuchengwu](https://github.com/yuchengwu))

* kubeadm has removed `.Etcd.SelfHosting`...

- The new flag `--chunk-size=SIZE` has been added to `kubectl describe`. This flag may be used to alter the number of items or disable this feature when `0` is passed. ([#101171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101171), [@KnVerey](https://github.com/KnVerey))...

    - [Promoted Server Side Unknown Field Validation to Beta](#promoted-server-side-unknown-field-validation-to-beta)
    - [Introduced KMS v2](#introduced-kms-v2)
    - [Kube-proxy images are now based on distroless images](#kube-proxy-images-are-now-based-on-distroless-images)
  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)

- kubeadm: prevent overriding of certain kubelet security configuration parameters if the user wished to modify them ([#81903](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81903), [@jfbai](https://github.com/jfbai))

- Introduce alpha support for exec-based container registry credential provider plugins in the kubelet. ([#94196](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94196), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Node and Release]

    *   Minikube integration
*   [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): CRI implementation for hypervisor-based runtimes is now v1.9. [[@resouer](https://github.com/resouer)]
    *   Added ARM64 release. Upgraded to CNI 0.6.0, added block device as Pod volume mode. Fixed CNI plugin compatibility.
    *   Passed all CRI validation conformance tests and node end-to-end conformance tests.

### Bug or Regression

- Adding (dry run) and (server dry run) suffixes to kubectl scale command when dry-run is passed ([#114252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114252), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

- Stdin is now only passed to client-go exec credential plugins when it is detected to be an interactive terminal. Previously, it was passed to client-go exec plugins when **stdout** was detected to be an interactive terminal. ([#99654](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99654), [@ankeesler](https://github.com/ankeesler))...