- Added support for installing `arm64` node artifacts. ([#99242](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99242), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))

  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4985: If you previously included .git in an AWS or Azure URL, we will no longer automatically remove that suffix. You may need to add an...

* Pod log attempts are now reported in apiserver prometheus metrics with verb `CONNECT` since they can run for very long periods of time. ([#50123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50123), [@WIZARD-CXY](https://github.com/WIZARD-CXY))

  and `sync_partial_proxy_rules_duration_seconds` (in addition to the existing
  `sync_proxy_rules_duration_seconds`), to give better information about how long
  each sync type is taking, rather than only giving a weighted average of the two
  sync types together. ([#117787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117787), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

- Fix clearing of rate-limiter for the queue of checks for cleaning stale pod disruption conditions. 
  The bug could result in the PDB synchronization updates firing too often or the pod disruption cleanups taking too long to happen. ([#114780](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114780), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

  is beta but disabled by default. ([#120198](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120198), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- `kubectl` will not support the `/swagger-2.0.0.pb-v1` endpoint that has been long deprecated. ([#119410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119410), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))
- `scheduler`: handling of unschedulable pods because a `ResourceClass` is missing

### Workloads that saturate nodes with pods may see pods that fail due to node admission

- New "field_validation_request_duration_seconds" metric, measures how long requests take, indicating the value of the fieldValidation query parameter and whether or not server-side field validation is enabled on the apiserver ([#109120](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109120), [@kevindelgado](https://github.com/kevindelgado))...

- Kubelet: added log for volume metric collection taking too long ([#107490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107490), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))