For stable features, the `kubectl` tool follows the Kubernetes [version skew policy](https://kubernetes.io/releases/version-skew-policy/);
however, kubectl v1.21 and older do not support the new API for ephemeral containers.

Roughly **all the docs** have been rewritten to use `Annotated` as the main way to declare **parameters** and **dependencies**. All the **examples** in the docs now include a version with `Annotated` and a version without it, for each of the specific Python versions (when there are small differences/improvements in more recent versions). There were around 23K new lines added between docs, examples, and tests. 🚀

The key updated docs are:

* Python Types Intro:

- `kubeadm`: will now allow deploying a kubelet that is 3 versions older than the version of `kubeadm` (N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that is older than the `kubeadm` version (N-1 maximum) then the skew between the kubelet and control plane would...

- The go version defined in `.go-version` is now fetched when invoking test, build, and code generation targets if the current go version does not match it. Set $FORCE_HOST_GO=y while testing or building to skip this behavior, or set $GO_VERSION to override the selected go version. ([#115498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115498), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Release...

### Autoscaling

 - Consuming metrics directly from Heapster is deprecated in favor of
   consuming metrics via an aggregated version of the resource metrics API.

   - In version 1.8, enable this behavior by setting the
     `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `true`.

- The go version defined in `.go-version` is now fetched when invoking test, build, and code generation targets if the current go version does not match it. Set $FORCE_HOST_GO=y while testing or building to skip this behavior, or set $GO_VERSION to override the selected go version. ([#115497](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115497), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Release...

All Kubernetes clusters with following versions, running Windows workloads with `runAsNonRoot` are impacted

**Affected Versions**:

- kubelet v1.20 - v1.21
- kubelet v1.22.0 - v1.22.13
- kubelet v1.23.0 - v1.23.10
- kubelet v1.24.0 - v1.24.4

**How do I mitigate this vulnerability?**

There are no known mitigations to this vulnerability.

**Fixed Versions**:

- kubelet v1.22.14

- The go version defined in `.go-version` is now fetched when invoking test, build, and code generation targets if the current go version does not match it. Set $FORCE_HOST_GO=y while testing or building to skip this behavior, or set $GO_VERSION to override the selected go version. ([#115377](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115377), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Testing]...

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.29.0 - v1.29.3
  - kube-apiserver v1.28.0 - v1.28.8
  - kube-apiserver <= v1.27.12

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.29.4
  - kube-apiserver v1.28.9
  - kube-apiserver v1.27.13

This vulnerability was reported by tha3e1vl.

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