- Kubeadm: allow the "certs check-expiration" command to not require the existence of the cluster CA key (ca.key file) when checking the expiration of managed certificates in kubeconfig files. ([#106927](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106927), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. favorite_count */
    String INDEX_FIELD_favorite_count = "index.field.favorite_count";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. click_count */
    String INDEX_FIELD_click_count = "index.field.click_count";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. config_id */
    String INDEX_FIELD_config_id = "index.field.config_id";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. expires */

* support cross resource group for azure file ([#68117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68117), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

winkernel mode. `--forward-healthcheck-vip`, if specified as true, health check traffic whose destination is service VIP will be forwarded to kube-proxy's healthcheck service. `--root-hnsendpoint-name` specifies the name of the hns endpoint for the root network namespace. This option enables the pass-through load balancers like Google's GCLB to correctly health check the backend services. Without this change, the health check packets is dropped, and Windows node will be considered to be unhealthy by...

- Use NLB Subnet CIDRs instead of VPC CIDRs in Health Check SG Rules ([#93515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93515), [@t0rr3sp3dr0](https://github.com/t0rr3sp3dr0)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

### Bug or Regression

- Kubeadm: allow the "certs check-expiration" command to not require the existence of the cluster CA key (ca.key file) when checking the expiration of managed certificates in kubeconfig files. ([#106931](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106931), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Added authorization check support to the CEL expressions of ValidatingAdmissionPolicy via a `authorizer`

- [`KT-56943`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56943) K/Wasm: implement `@WasmImport` diagnostics
- [`KT-55903`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-55903) K2: False negative CANNOT_CHECK_FOR_ERASED on is-check for type with reified type arguments
- [`KT-56944`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56944) K/Wasm: implement `@JsFun` diagnostics

- If `ComponentSLIs` feature gate is enabled, then `/metrics/slis` now becomes available on cloud-controller-manager allowing you to scrape health check metrics. ([#113340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113340), [@Richabanker](https://gi...

- The  new flag `etcd-ready-timeout` has been added. It configures a timeout of an additional etcd check performed as part of readyz check. ([#111399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111399), [@Argh4k](https://github.com/Argh4k))