- Made `apiextensions-apiserver` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114226), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

themes that guided their work.

[Special Interest Groups]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md

### SIG API Machinery

[SIG API Machinery][] is responsible for all aspects of the API server: API registration and discovery, generic API CRUD semantics, admission control, encoding/decoding, conversion, defaulting, persistence layer (etcd), OpenAPI, third-party resources, garbage collection, and client libraries.

- Client-side apply will now use OpenAPI `v3` by default. ([#120707](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120707), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))
- Decoding etcd's response now respects the timeout context. ([#121614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121614), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))

## Changelog since v1.26.2

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Volumes: `resource.claims` gets cleared for PVC specs during create or update of a pod spec with inline PVC template or of a PVC because it has no effect. ([#115928](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115928), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Storage]