### Bug or Regression

- Fix component status calling etcd health endpoint over http which exposed kubernetes to the risk of complete watch starvation and is inconsistent with other etcd probing done by kube-apiserver. ([#118683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118683), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery]

- ValidatingAdmissionPolicy type checking now correctly handles `authorizer` variable. ([#118540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118540), [@jiahuif](https://github.com/jiahuif)) [SIG API Machinery]
- When a pod is done or not going to run, then `ResourceClaims` for it can be reused by other pods or deleted. ([#118817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118817), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

    * and cloud_cidr_allocator. (ALPHA FEATURE)
    * Note: for this change, the other allocators still exist and are the default.
    * It supports two modes:
        * CIDR range allocations done within the cluster that are then propagated out to the cloud provider.
        * Cloud provider managed IPAM that is then reflected into the cluster.

unless you are still using kubelet version < 1.24 with kubeadm >= 1.24. Remove the DockerValidor and ServiceCheck for the `docker` service from kubeadm preflight. Docker is no longer special cased during host validation and ideally this task should be done in the now external cri-dockerd project where the importance of the compatibility matters. Use `crictl` for all communication with CRI sockets for actions like pulling images and obtaining a list of running containers instead of using the docker CLI...

### Bug or Regression

- Fix component status calling etcd health endpoint over http which exposed kubernetes to the risk of complete watch starvation and is inconsistent with other etcd probing done by kube-apiserver. ([#119039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119039), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery]

  
  As this code is still very new, it has not been heavily optimized yet;
  while it is expected to _eventually_ have better performance than the
  iptables backend, very little performance testing has been done so far. ([#121046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121046), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix component status calling etcd health endpoint over http which exposed kubernetes to the risk of complete watch starvation and is inconsistent with other etcd probing done by kube-apiserver. ([#119038](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119038), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery]