- Added `DisruptionTarget` condition to the pod preempted by kubelet to make room for a critical pod. ([#117586](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117586), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

  - update distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 ([#123229](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123229), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until

* [alpha] Users can now add taints to nodes by condition ([design doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/scheduling/taint-node-by-condition.md))

#### Storage

* [stable] Mount options

  * The ability to specify mount options for volumes is moved from beta to stable.

- Fix a panic when using invalid output format in kubectl create secret command ([#107345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107345), [@rikatz](https://github.com/rikatz)) [SIG CLI]
- Fixes a rare race condition handling requests that timeout ([#107460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107460), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

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