- Kubeadm now respects the custom image registry configuration across joins and upgrades. Kubeadm passes the custom registry to the kubelet for a custom pause container. ([#70603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70603), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))

- Fixed a bug that causes smaller number of conntrack-max being used under CPU static policy. (#99225, @xh4n3) ([#99613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99613), [@xh4n3](https://github.com/xh4n3)) [SIG Network]

    *  - vSphere cloud provider (VCP) uses OS hostname and not vSphere Inventory VM Name.
    *    That means, now  VCP can handle cases where user changes VM inventory name.
    * - VCP can handle cases where VM migrates to other ESXi cluster or datacenter or vCenter.

- Fixed a bug on the `EndpointSlice` mirroring controller that generated multiple slices in some cases for custom endpoints in non canonical format. ([#114155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114155), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

* Fixed a bug which caused the apiserver reboot failure in the presence of malfunctioning webhooks. ([#59073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59073), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

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  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the server to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the server to abort the startup.

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  * `api-servers` - add apiserver addresses to the kubeconfig file instead.

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the kubelet to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the kubelet to abort the startup.

- Dynamic provisions that create iSCSI PVs can now ensure that multipath is used by specifying 2 or more target portals in the PV, which will cause kubelet to wait up to 10 seconds for the multipath device. PVs with just one portal continue to work...