- Kubernetes is now built using Go 1.23.9 ([#131938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131938), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Improve error message when a pod with user namespaces is created and the runtime doesn't support user namespaces. ([#131812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131812), [@rata](https://github.com/rata)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

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- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112398),...

* Fix OpenID Connect (OIDC) token refresh when the client secret contains a special character. ([#76914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76914), [@tsuna](https://github.com/tsuna))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Improve error message when a pod with user namespaces is created and the runtime doesn't support user namespaces. ([#131781](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131781), [@rata](https://github.com/rata)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

## Changelog since v1.23.11

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression