- Kubeadm: Switched to using the new etcd endpoints introduced in 3.5.11 - /livez (for liveness probe) and /readyz (for readyness and startup probe). With this change it is no longer possible to deploy a custom etcd version older than 3.5.11 with kubeadm 1.31. If so, please upgrade etcd to a supported version. ([#124465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124465),...

* Fixed incomplete kubectl bash completion. ([#31333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31333), [@xingzhou](https://github.com/xingzhou))
* Added liveness probe to Heapster service. ([#31878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31878), [@mksalawa](https://github.com/mksalawa))

* Fixes storage e2e test failures in GKE regional clusters. ([#61303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61303), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))
* fix the error prone account creation method of blob disk ([#59739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59739), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

### Deprecated/changed metrics

- kubelet probe metrics are now of the counter type rather than the gauge type, and the `prober_probe_result` has been replaced by `prober_probe_total`. ([#76074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76074), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))

### Internal

* 🔧 Add Pydantic 2 trove classifier. PR [#13199](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/13199) by [@johnthagen](https://github.com/johnthagen).

* Azure cloudprovider: Fix controller manager crash issue on a manually created k8s cluster. ([#53694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53694), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix kubelet reset liveness probe failure count across pod restart boundaries. ([#46371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46371), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))



# v1.6.11

    * Bump metadata agent version to 0.2-0.0.21-1.
    * Expand the metadata agent's access to all API groups.
    * Remove metadata agent config maps in favor of command line flags.
    * Update the metadata agent's liveness probe to a new /healthz handler.
    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.

  honor the specified `scheme` and `headers` fields. This enables setting custom
  headers and changing the scheme to `HTTPS`, consistent with container
  startup/readiness/liveness probe capabilities. Lifecycle handlers configured
  with `scheme: HTTPS` that encounter errors indicating the endpoint is actually
  using HTTP fall back to making the request over HTTP for compatibility with