- Replace scale down forbidden window with scale down stabilization window. Rather than waiting a fixed period of time between scale downs HPA now scales down to the highest recommendation it during the scale down stabilization window. ([#68122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68122), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))...

* The OwnerReferencesPermissionEnforcement admission plugin now requires `update` permission on the `finalizers` subresource of the referenced owner in order to set `blockOwnerDeletion` on an owner reference. ([#49133](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49133), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

# See the OWNERS docs at https://go.k8s.io/owners

options:
  # make root approval non-recursive
  no_parent_owners: true
approvers:
  - release-engineering-approvers
  - release-managers
  - AuraSinis # 1.24 Release Notes Lead
  - cici37 # 1.23 Release Notes Lead
  - csantanapr # 1.25 Release Notes Lead
  - harshanarayana # 1.27 Release Notes Lead
  - ramrodo # 1.26 Release Notes Lead
  - sanchita-07 # 1.28 Release Notes Lead

  For more information, see [#47131](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/47131)

*   If a namespaced resource is owned by a cluster scoped resource, and the namespaced dependent is processed before the cluster scoped owner has ever been observed by the garbage collector, the dependent will be erroneously deleted.

- The go version defined in `.go-version` is now fetched when invoking test, build, and code generation targets if the current go version does not match it. Set $FORCE_HOST_GO=y while testing or building to skip this behavior,...

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