- OpenStack Cinder CSI migration is on by default, Clinder CSI driver must be installed on clusters on OpenStack for Cinder volumes to work. ([#98538](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98538), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Storage]

- Linux/arm will not ship in Kubernetes 1.27 as we are running into issues with building artifacts using golang 1.20.2 (please see issue #116492) ([#115742](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115742), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Architecture, Release and Testing]

* The SubjectAccessReview API in the `authorization.k8s.io` API group now allows providing the user uid. ([#49677](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49677), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Added a container image for `kubectl` at `registry.k8s.io/kubectl` across the same architectures as other images (linux/amd64 linux/arm64 linux/s390x linux/ppc64le) ([#116672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116672), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Architecture and Release]

- Fixed bug with leads to Node goes `Not-ready` state when credentials for vCenter stored in a secret and Zones feature is in use. Zone labels setup moved to KCM component, kubelet skips this step during startup in such case. If...

- Etcd: Update to v3.5.5 ([#112489](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112489), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG API Machinery, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle and Testing]

- For `kubeadm`: remove the ClusterStatus API from v1beta3 and its management in the kube-system/kubeadm-config ConfigMap. This method of keeping track of what API endpoints exists in the cluster was replaced (in a prior release)...

- Allow to build kubernetes with a custom `kube-cross` image. ([#104185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104185), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
- Allows users to prevent garbage collection on pinned images ([#103299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103299), [@wgahnagl](https://github.com/wgahnagl)) [SIG Node]

- The feature gate `LegacyServiceAccountTokenTracking` (GA since 1.28) is now removed because the feature is unconditionally enabled. ([#122409](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122409), [@Rei1010](https://github.com/Rei1010))...

- CVE-2023-27561 CVE-2023-25809 CVE-2023-28642: Bump fix runc v1.1.4 -> v1.1.5
  - Fixed cgroup removal error when using runc binary >= 1.1.6 ([#117691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117691), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Node and Storage]