- Added ability for kubectl wait to wait on arbitary JSON path (#105776, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Added the ability to specify whether to use an RFC7396 JSON Merge Patch, an RFC6902 JSON Patch, or a Strategic Merge Patch to perform an override of the resources created by kubectl run and kubectl expose. (#105140, @brianpursley) [SIG CLI]

So, a request with a content type of `text/plain` containing JSON data would be accepted and the JSON data would be extracted.

- Fix how nulls are handled in array and objects in [json patches](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch). ([#102467](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102467), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

    * API fields previously capable of storing and returning either `[]` and `null` via JSON API requests (for example, the Endpoints `subsets` field) can now store only `null` when created using the protobuf content-type or stored in etcd using protobuf serialization (the default in 1.6+). JSON API clients should tolerate `null` values for such fields, and treat `null` and `[]` as equivalent in meaning unless specifically documented otherwise...

### API Change

- Protobuf serialization of metav1.MicroTime timestamps (used in `Lease` and `Event` API objects) has been corrected to truncate to microsecond precision, to match the documented behavior and JSON/YAML serialization. Any existing persisted data is truncated to microsecond when read from etcd. ([#111936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111936), [@haoruan](https://github.com/haoruan)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kubeadm: enhanced the "patches" functionality to be able to patch kubelet config files containing `v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration`. The new patch target is called `kubeletconfiguration` (e.g. patch file `kubeletconfiguration+json.json`).This makes it possible to apply node specific KubeletConfiguration options during `init`, `join` and `upgrade`, while the main `KubeletConfiguration` that is passed to `init` as part of the `--config` file can still act as the global stored in...

- [`KT-63207`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-63207) KMP / JS: "TypeError: <mangled_name> is not a function" with 1.9.20
- [`KT-62778`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-62778) package.json "main" field has .js extension when the result files have .mjs extension
- [`KT-61795`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-61795) KJS: Incremental Cache is not invalidated if `useEsClasses` compiler argument was changed

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [v5.6.0+incompatible → v4.12.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/v5.6.0...v4.12.0)
- github.com/google/cel-go: [v0.16.0 → v0.16.1](https://github.com/google/cel-go/compare/v0.16.0...v0.16.1)

### Removed
_Nothing has changed._

  // defaultMode is optional: mode bits used to set permissions on created files by default.
  // Must be an octal value between 0000 and 0777 or a decimal value between 0 and 511.
  // YAML accepts both octal and decimal values, JSON requires decimal values for mode bits.
  // Defaults to 0644.
  // Directories within the path are not affected by this setting.
  // This might be in conflict with other options that affect the file

pkg debug/gosym, method (*LineTable) PCToLine //deprecated
pkg encoding/csv, type Reader struct, TrailingComma //deprecated
pkg encoding/csv, var ErrTrailingComma //deprecated
pkg encoding/json, type InvalidUTF8Error //deprecated
pkg encoding/json, type UnmarshalFieldError //deprecated
pkg go/build, const AllowBinary //deprecated
pkg go/doc, type Package struct, Bugs //deprecated
pkg go/importer, func For //deprecated