- A terminating pod on a node that is not caused by preemption no longer prevents `kube-scheduler` from preempting pods on that node...

* Azure file persistent volumes can use a new `secretNamespace` field to reference a secret in a different namespace than the one containing their bound persistent volume claim. The azure file persistent volume provisioner honors a corresponding `secretNamespace` storage class parameter to determine where to place secrets containing the storage account...

- `kubectl explain` should correctly work for all resources. ([#118876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118876), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree))
- `kubectl expose` supports the creation of different protocol services on the same port. ([#114909](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114909), [@aimuz](https://github.com/aimuz))

- Structured Authentication Configuration now supports `DiscoveryURL`. If specified, `discoveryURL` overrides the URL used to fetch discovery information. This is for scenarios where the well-known and jwks endpoints are hosted at a different location than the issuer (such as locally in the cluster).
   ([#123527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123527), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))

- `kubelet` now exposes latency metrics of different stages of the node startup. ([#118568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118568), [@qiutongs](https://github.com/qiutongs))

### Documentation

## Changelog since v1.26.6

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- GCE does not support LoadBalancer Services with ports with different protocols (TCP and UDP) ([#115966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115966), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps and Cloud Provider]

### Feature