- CustomResourceDefinition schemas that use `x-kubernetes-list-map-keys` to specify properties that uniquely identify list items must make those properties required or have a default value, to ensure those properties are present for all list items. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#merge-strategy for details. ([#88076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88076),...

* Scheduler only activates unschedulable pods if node's scheduling related properties change. ([#71551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71551), [@mlmhl](https://github.com/mlmhl))

* Disable proxy to loopback and linklocal ([#71980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71980), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))

* apply: fix detection of non-dry-run enabled servers ([#71854](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71854), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))
* Scheduler only activates unschedulable pods if node's scheduling related properties change. ([#71551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71551), [@mlmhl](https://github.com/mlmhl))

- github.com/kr/logfmt: [b84e30a](https://github.com/kr/logfmt/tree/b84e30a)
- github.com/kr/pty: [v1.1.1](https://github.com/kr/pty/tree/v1.1.1)
- github.com/magiconair/properties: [v1.8.1](https://github.com/magiconair/properties/tree/v1.8.1)
- github.com/mattn/go-colorable: [v0.0.9](https://github.com/mattn/go-colorable/tree/v0.0.9)
- github.com/mattn/go-isatty: [v0.0.3](https://github.com/mattn/go-isatty/tree/v0.0.3)

- Bumped distroless-iptables to 0.4.1 based on Go `1.21.3`. ([#121871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121871), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))
- CEL can now correctly handle a CRD `openAPIV3Schema` that has neither `Properties` nor `AdditionalProperties`. ([#121459](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121459), [@jiahuif](https://github.com/jiahuif))

* Scheduler only activates unschedulable pods if node's scheduling related properties change. ([#71551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71551), [@mlmhl](https://github.com/mlmhl))

- github.com/json-iterator/go: [v1.1.11 → v1.1.12](https://github.com/json-iterator/go/compare/v1.1.11...v1.1.12)
- github.com/magiconair/properties: [v1.8.1 → v1.8.5](https://github.com/magiconair/properties/compare/v1.8.1...v1.8.5)
- github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir: [v1.1.0 → v1.0.0](https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/compare/v1.1.0...v1.0.0)

- github.com/hashicorp/memberlist: [v0.1.3](https://github.com/hashicorp/memberlist/tree/v0.1.3)
- github.com/hashicorp/serf: [v0.8.2](https://github.com/hashicorp/serf/tree/v0.8.2)
- github.com/magiconair/properties: [v1.8.5](https://github.com/magiconair/properties/tree/v1.8.5)
- github.com/mattn/go-colorable: [v0.0.9](https://github.com/mattn/go-colorable/tree/v0.0.9)
- github.com/mattn/go-isatty: [v0.0.3](https://github.com/mattn/go-isatty/tree/v0.0.3)

    * If --config-map is set, kube-dns will load dynamic configuration from the config map
      referenced by --config-map-namespace, --config-map. The config-map supports
      the following properties: "federations".
    * --federations flag is now deprecated. Prefer to set federations via the config-map.
      Federations can be configured by settings the "federations" field to the value currently