- `CSINodeExpandSecret` feature has been promoted to `GA` in this release and is enabled
  by default. The CSI drivers can make use of the `secretRef` values passed in `NodeExpansion`
  request optionally sent by the CSI Client from this release onwards. ([#121303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121303), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

- Kube-proxy: Traffic from the cluster directed to ExternalIPs is always sent directly to the Service. ([#96296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96296), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- AdmissionReview objects sent for the creation of Namespace API objects now populate the `namespace` attribute consistently (previously the `namespace` attribute was empty for Namespace creation via POST requests, and populated for Namespace creation via server-side-apply PATCH...

- Set metrics-server's metric-resolution to 15s. ([#117121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117121), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]
- SubjectAccessReview requests sent to webhook authorizers now default `spec.resourceAttributes.version` to `*` if unset. ([#116937](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116937), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan)) [SIG Apps and Auth]

			terminated := tracer.runChain(table, utiliptables.Chain(rule.Jump.Value), sourceIP, protocol, destIP, destPort)

			// If the subchain hit a terminal rule AND the rule that sent us
			// to that chain was non-probabilistic, then this chain terminates
			// as well. But if we went there because of a --probability rule,
			// then we want to keep accumulating further matches against this

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

* Fixes an issue with missing apiVersion/kind in object data sent to admission webhooks ([#74448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74448), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

        <match value="Relay-Version:" type="stringignorecase" offset="0"/>
        <match value="Return-Path:" type="stringignorecase" offset="0"/>
        <match value="Sent:" type="string" offset="0"/>
        <match value="Status:" type="string" offset="0"/>
        <match value="User-Agent:" type="string" offset="0"/>
        <match value="X-Mailer:" type="string" offset="0"/>

- Fixed a kubelet issue that could result in invalid pod status updates to be sent to the api-server where pods would be reported in a terminal phase but also report a ready condition of true in some cases. ([#110480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110480), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage)) [SIG Node and...