- The underlying format of the `CPUManager` state file has changed. Upgrades should be seamless, but any third-party tools that rely on reading the previous format need to be updated. ([#84462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84462), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Pod termination will be faster when the pod has a missing volume reference. ([#117412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117412), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node and Testing]

is done for the related RBAC rules. The old format is now DEPRECATED and will be removed after the feature graduates to GA. When writing the ConfigMap kubeadm (init, upgrade apply) will respect the value of UnversionedKubeletConfigMap, while when reading it (join, reset, upgrade), it would attempt to use new format first and fallback to the legacy format if needed. ([#105741](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105741), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and...

* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Deduplicate PATH items when reading plugins. ([#69089](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69089), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

Set([...i.candidates??[],He]),n=new Set;Ye.DEBUG&&console.time("Reading changed files");let a=[];for(let y of i.changedContent){let w=JC(i.tailwindConfig,y.extension),k=QC(i,y.extension);a.push([y,{transformer:w,extractor:k}])}let s=500;for(let y=0;y<a.length;y+=s){let w=a.slice(y,y+s);await Promise.all(w.map(async([{file:k,content:S},{transformer:_,extractor:E}])=>{S=k?await te.promises.readFile(k,"utf8"):S,XC(_(S),E,r,n)}))}Ye.DEBUG&&console.timeEnd("Reading changed files");let o=i.classCache.size;Ye.DEBUG&...

* fix kubelet event recording for selected events. ([#46246](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46246), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

* Fix kubelet event recording for selected events. ([#46246](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46246), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

- Fixed file permission issues that happened during update of Secret/ConfigMap/projected volume when fsGroup is used. The problem caused a race condition where application gets intermittent permission denied error when reading files that were just updated, before the correct permissions were applied. ([#114728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114728), [@furkatgofurov7](https://github.com/furkatgofurov7)) [SIG Storage]