- kubelet v1.26.11
  - kubelet v1.25.16

This vulnerability was reported by Tomer Peled @tomerpeled92"


**CVSS Rating:** High (7.2) [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

Kube-apiserver: Fixed a `1.27`+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a `resourceVersion` from the watch cache by default, as in <`1.27` (disabling the change in PR 115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in PR 115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion`...

  - kube-apiserver v1.28.9
  - kube-apiserver v1.27.13

This vulnerability was reported by tha3e1vl.


**CVSS Rating:** Low (2.7) [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.21.9

* This PR removes unused soak test cauldron ([#77335](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77335), [@loqutus](https://github.com/loqutus))
* N/A ([#76966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76966), [@figo](https://github.com/figo))

* This PR adds a manager to NodeController that is responsible for removing Pods from Nodes tainted with NoExecute Taints. This feature is beta (as the rest of taints) and enabled by default. It's gated by controller-manager enable-taint-manager flag. ([#403...

* Extend secrets volumes with path control ([#25285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25285), [@ingvagabund](https://github.com/ingvagabund))

evict running Pods that do not tolerate the NoSchedule taint if the taint is added to a Node.  There is an open PR ([#48189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48189)) to resolve this issue, but as this issue also exists in 1.6, and as we do not wish to risk release stability by merging it directly prior to a release without sufficient testing, we have decided to defer merging the PR until the next point release for each minor version ([#48190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48190))....

* Fix --help flag parsing  ([#74682](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74682), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* This PR removes the following metrics: ([#74636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74636), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))
    *   reflector_items_per_list
    *   reflector_items_per_watch