* The kube-apiserver [basic audit log](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/audit/) can be enabled in GCE by exporting the environment variable `ENABLE_APISERVER_BASIC_AUDIT=true` before running `cluster/kube-up.sh`. This will log to `/var/log/kube-apiserver-audit.log` and use the same `logrotate` settings as `/var/log/kube-apiserver.log`. ([#41211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41211), [@enisoc](ht...

[registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy:v1.30.0-alpha.2](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-proxy) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-proxy-amd64), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-proxy-arm64), [ppc64le](https://console.cloud.googl...

* AWS: Change default networking for kube-up to kubenet ([#32239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32239), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Make sure finalizers prevent deletion on storage that supports graceful deletion ([#32351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32351), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))