- EndpointSlice controller is now less likely to emit FailedToUpdateEndpointSlices events. ([#99345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99345), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

  - `priority_level_seat_count_watermarks` is removed.
  - `priority_level_request_count_samples` is replaced with `priority_level_request_utilization`, which samples every nanosecond rather than every millisecond; the old metric conveyed utilization despite its name.

- Resolves regression generating informers for packages whose names contain `.` characters ([#82410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82410), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))
- Resolves issue with `/readyz` and `/livez` not including etcd and kms health checks ([#82713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82713), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- Kubernetes will try to acquire the iptables lock every 100 msec during 5 seconds instead of every second. This is especially useful for environments using kube-proxy in iptables mode with a high churn rate of services. ([#85771](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85771), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG...

### Non-recursive Volume Ownership (FSGroup) graduates to Beta

By default, the `fsgroup` setting, if specified, recursively updates permissions for every file in a volume on every mount. This can make mount, and pod startup, very slow if the volume has many files. 

  // (typically AWS load-balancers)
  // +optional
  optional string hostname = 2;

  // Ports is a list of records of service ports
  // If used, every port defined in the service should have an entry in it
  // +listType=atomic
  // +optional
  repeated PortStatus ports = 4;
}

// LoadBalancerStatus represents the status of a load-balancer.

- `data_key_generation_latencies_microseconds` -> `data_key_generation_latencies_seconds`

## Notable Features

- Increased the histogram resolution of the API server client certificate  to accommodate short-lived (< 6h) client certificates. ([#74806](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74806), [@mxinden](https://github.com/mxinden))

example, `apps/v1 deployments`) and be called when any other version of that resource is modified (for example `extensions/v1beta1 deployments`). This allows new versions of a resource to be handled by admission webhooks without needing to update every webhook to understand the new version. See the API documentation for the `matchPolicy: Equivalent` option in MutatingWebhookConfiguration and ValidatingWebhookConfiguration types. ([#78135](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78135), [@l...

* Fixed a race condition in k8s.io/client-go/tools/cache.SharedInformer that could violate the sequential delivery guarantee and cause panics on shutdown. ([#59828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59828), [@krousey](https://github.com/krousey))

- Introduce support for CEL optionals (see [CEL spec proposal 246](https://github.com/google/cel-spec/wiki/proposal-246)).
  This feature will not be fully enabled until a future Kubernetes release (likely to be v1.29), but is added in v1.28 to enable
  safe rollback on downgrade. ([#118339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118339), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud Provider and Testing]