* Reduce Metrics Server memory requirement ([#58391](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58391), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))
* GCP: allow a master to not include a metadata concealment firewall rule (if it's not running the metadata proxy). ([#58104](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58104), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))

    * The audience claim before this fix has "spn:" prefix. After this fix, "spn:" prefix is omitted.
* Fix LoadBalancer rule checking so that no unexpected LoadBalancer updates are made ([#85990](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85990), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Fix bug in CRD Validation Rules (beta) and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy (alpha) where all admission requests could result in `internal error: runtime error: index out of range [3] with length 3 evaluating rule: <rule name>` under certain circumstances. ([#114865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114865), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery]

- PodSecurityPolicy objects now support a `MayRunAs` rule for `fsGroup` and `supplementalGroups` options. This allows specifying ranges of allowed GIDs for pods/containers without forcing a default GID the way `MustRunAs` does. This means that a container to which such a policy applies to won't use any f...

* Added configurable etcd quota backend bytes in GCE. ([#59259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59259), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* GCP: allow a master to not include a metadata concealment firewall rule (if it's not running the metadata proxy). ([#58104](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58104), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))

- Fix bug in CRD Validation Rules (beta) and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy (alpha) where all admission requests could result in `internal error: runtime error: index out of range [3] with length 3 evaluating rule: <rule name>` under certain circumstances. ([#114861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114861), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

- Fix bug in CRD Validation Rules (beta) and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy (alpha) where all admission requests could result in `internal error: runtime error: index out of range [3] with length 3 evaluating rule: <rule name>` under certain circumstances. ([#114864](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114864), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Add `PersistentVolumeClaimDeletePoilcy` to StatefulSet API. ([#99378](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99378), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))
- Add a new Priority and Fairness rule that exempts all probes (`/readyz`, `/healthz`, `/livez`) to prevent restarting of healthy `kube-apiserver` instance by kubelet. ([#100678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100678), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

  * Note that you can only start using the `affinity` field **after** you upgrade to 1.6; it is not recognized in 1.5.
  * The `--failure-domains` scheduler command line-argument is not supported in the beta version of the feature.

* 👷 Update build-docs GitHub Action path filter. PR [#11354](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/11354) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
* 🔧 Update Ruff config, add extra ignore rule from SQLModel. PR [#11353](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/11353) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).