- [`KT-63044`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-63044) KGP: Multiplatform - 8.4 configuration cache support
- [`KT-63011`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-63011) Apple Framework Artifacts is not connected to KotlinNativeTask
- [`KT-62601`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-62601) AS/IntelliJ exception after updating a KMP project with a macos target to Kotlin 1.9.20-RC

### Tools. Incremental Compile

<pre>
*Point(p)        // same as *(Point(p))
(*Point)(p)      // p is converted to *Point
&lt;-chan int(c)    // same as &lt;-(chan int(c))
(&lt;-chan int)(c)  // c is converted to &lt;-chan int
func()(x)        // function signature func() x
(func())(x)      // x is converted to func()
(func() int)(x)  // x is converted to func() int
func() int(x)    // x is converted to func() int (unambiguous)
</pre>

<p>

- kube-apiserver: setting a `dryRun` query parameter on a CONNECT request will now cause the request to be rejected, consistent with behavior of other mutating API requests. Examples of CONNECT APIs are the `nodes/proxy`, `services/proxy`, `pods/proxy`, `pods/exec`, and `pods/attach` subresources. Note that this prevents sending a `dryRun` parameter to backends via `{nodes,...

## Known Issues

- There is a known issue [coredns/coredns#2629](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/2629) in CoreDNS 1.3.1, wherein if the Kubernetes API shuts down while CoreDNS is connected, CoreDNS will crash. The issue is fixed in CoreDNS 1.4.0 in [coredns/coredns#2529](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/2529).

- Ginkgo: when e2e tests are invoked through ginkgo-e2e.sh, the default now is to use color escape sequences only when connected to a terminal. `GINKGO_NO_COLOR=y/n` can be used to override that default. ([#111633](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111633), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

* Fix kubelet to correctly umounts mount points for glusterfs when transport endpoint is not connected and nfs when there is a stale file handle ([#58660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58660), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

- Fixes a bug where images pinned by the container runtime can be garbage collected by kubelet. ([#120053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120053), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG Node]

- APIService availability related to networking glitches are corrected faster ([#68678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68678), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- Added `ImageMaximumGCAge` field to Kubelet configuration, which allows a user to set the maximum age an image is unused before it's garbage collected. ([#121275](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121275), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander))
- Added `UserNamespacesPodSecurityStandards` feature gate to enable user namespace support for Pod Security Standards.

* Update kube-dns to Version 1.14.8 that includes only small changes to how Prometheus metrics are collected. ([#57918](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57918), [@rramkumar1](https://github.com/rramkumar1))