vSphere releases less than 67u3 are deprecated as of v1.21. Please consider upgrading vSphere to 67u3 or above. vSphere CSI Driver requires minimum vSphere 67u3.
  
  VM Hardware version less than 15 is deprecated as of v1.21. Please consider upgrading the Node VM Hardware version to 15 or above. vSphere CSI Driver recommends Node VM's Hardware version set to at least vmx-15.

- Kubelet allows pods to use the `net.ipv4.ip_local_reserved_ports` sysctl by default and the minimal kernel version is 3.16; Pod Security admission allows this sysctl in v1.27+ versions of the baseline and restricted policies. ([#115374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115374), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Auth, Network...

* [Federation][kubefed]: Use StorageClassName for etcd pvc ([#46323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46323), [@marun](https://github.com/marun))
* Restrict active deadline seconds max allowed value to be maximum uint32 ([#46640](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46640), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

- VSphere releases less than 7.0u2 are deprecated as of v1.24. Please consider upgrading vSphere to 7.0u2 or above. vSphere CSI Driver requires minimum vSphere 7.0u2.

- The `EmptyDir` memory backed volumes are sized as the minimum of pod allocatable memory on a host and an optional explicit user provided value. ([#101048](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101048), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- The kube-proxy image contains `/go-runner` as a replacement for deprecated klog flags. ([#106301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106301), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
- The maximum length of the `CSINode` id field has increased to 256 bytes to match the CSI spec. ([#104160](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104160), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- Added the `disable-force-detach` CLI option for `kube-controller-manager`. By default, it's set to `false`. When enabled, it prevents force detaching volumes based on maximum unmount time and node status. If activated, the non-graceful node shutdown feature must be used to recover from node failure. Additionally, if a pod needs to be forcibly terminated at the risk of corruption, the appropriate VolumeAttachment object...

- Clarified the CFS quota as 100ms in the code comments and set the minimum `cpuCFSQuotaPeriod` to 1ms to match Linux kernel expectations. ([#112123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112123), [@paskal](https://github.com/paskal))

- `kubelet` , when using `--cloud-provider=external`, will now initialize the node addresses...