- The `export` query parameter (inconsistently supported by API resources and deprecated in v1.14) is fully removed.  Requests setting this query parameter will now receive a 400 status response. ([#98312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98312), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Testing]...

of type meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1 with Table, and contain column and row information related to the resource. Each row will contain information about the resource - by default it will be the object metadata, but callers can add the ?includeObject=Object query parameter and receive the full object. In the future kubectl will use this to retrieve the results of `kubectl get`. ([#40848](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40848), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

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* Fix a potential bug that scheduler preempts unnecessary pods. ([#70898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70898), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* The kube-apiserver's healthz now takes in an optional query parameter which allows you to disable health checks from causing healthz failures.  ([#70676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70676), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-9042: Command Injection affecting Windows nodes via nodes/*/logs/query API

A security vulnerability has been discovered in Kubernetes windows nodes
that could allow a user with the ability to query a node's '/logs' endpoint
to execute arbitrary commands on the host.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.29.12
  - kubelet <= v1.30.8

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-9042: Command Injection affecting Windows nodes via nodes/*/logs/query API

A security vulnerability has been discovered in Kubernetes windows nodes
that could allow a user with the ability to query a node's '/logs' endpoint
to execute arbitrary commands on the host.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.29.12
  - kubelet <= v1.30.8

	}

	// Read escaped copy source path to check for parameters.
	cpSrcPath := r.Header.Get(xhttp.AmzCopySource)
	var vid string
	if u, err := url.Parse(cpSrcPath); err == nil {
		vid = strings.TrimSpace(u.Query().Get(xhttp.VersionID))
		// Note that url.Parse does the unescaping
		cpSrcPath = u.Path
	}

	srcBucket, srcObject := path2BucketObject(cpSrcPath)

    * - Fix a bug in DNS resolution for externalName services
    * and PTR records that need to query from upstream nameserver.
* Fix machineID getting for vmss nodes when using instance metadata ([#62611](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62611), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-9042: Command Injection affecting Windows nodes via nodes/*/logs/query API

A security vulnerability has been discovered in Kubernetes windows nodes
that could allow a user with the ability to query a node's '/logs' endpoint
to execute arbitrary commands on the host.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.29.12
  - kubelet <= v1.30.8

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-9042: Command Injection affecting Windows nodes via nodes/*/logs/query API

A security vulnerability has been discovered in Kubernetes windows nodes
that could allow a user with the ability to query a node's '/logs' endpoint
to execute arbitrary commands on the host.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.29.12
  - kubelet <= v1.30.8

	if isLDAPSTS {
		// Need to lookup the groups from LDAP.
		_, ldapGroups, err := globalIAMSys.LDAPConfig.LookupUserDN(ldapUser)
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("unable to query LDAP server for %s: %w", ldapUser, err)
		}

		cred.Groups = ldapGroups
	}

	// Set these credentials to IAM.