- Relaxed API validation for usage `key encipherment` and `kubelet` uses requested usages accordingly ([#111660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111660), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

* Add apiserver metric for number of requests dropped because of inflight limit. ([#58340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58340), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* Add apiserver metric for current inflight-request usage. ([#58342](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58342), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* Update Calico version to v2.6.6 ([#58482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58482), [@tmjd](https://github.com/tmjd))

- Fixes an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

- Graduated the following kubelet resource metrics to **general availability**:
  - `container_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  - `container_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `container_start_time_seconds`
  - `node_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  - `node_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `pod_cpu_usage_seconds_total`
  - `pod_memory_working_set_bytes`
  - `resource_scrape_error`
  

- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112398), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixed an error when trying to expand a volume that does not require node expansion. ([#123055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123055), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Fixed an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes. ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset))

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

### Feature