- Add --permit-address-sharing flag to `kube-apiserver` to listen with `SO_REUSEADDR`. While allowing to listen on wildcard IPs like 0.0.0.0 and specific IPs in parallel, it avoids waiting for the kernel to release socket in `TIME_WAIT` state, and hence, considerably reducing `kube-apiserver` restart times under certain conditions. ([#93861](https://github.com/kubern...

- Etcd image `v3.5.12` has been built. ([#123069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123069), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni))
- Fixed a bug in scheduler requeueing where registered wildcard cluster event sources didn't work. ([#123117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123117), [@kerthcet](https://github.com/kerthcet))

### Instrumentation

* For advanced auditing, audit policy supports subresources wildcard matching, such as "resource/", "/subresource","*". ([#55306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55306), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

- Support `FakeClientset` match subresource. ([#100939](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100939), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming))
- The "Leader Migration" now support a wildcard component name and the default value. ([#102711](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102711), [@jiahuif](https://github.com/jiahuif))

- Ingress: Add alternate backends via TypedLocalObjectReference ([#88775](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88775), [@cmluciano](https://github.com/cmluciano)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Ingress: allow wildcard hosts in IngressRule ([#88858](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88858), [@cmluciano](https://github.com/cmluciano)) [SIG Network]

- When creating a networking.k8s.io/v1 Ingress API object, `spec.rules[*].http` values are now validated consistently when the `host` field contains a wildcard. ([#93954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93954), [@Miciah](https://github.com/Miciah)) [SIG CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Network, Storage and Testing]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Ingress: Add alternate backends via TypedLocalObjectReference ([#88775](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88775), [@cmluciano](https://github.com/cmluciano)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Ingress: allow wildcard hosts in IngressRule ([#88858](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88858), [@cmluciano](https://github.com/cmluciano)) [SIG Network]
- Introduces optional --detect-local flag to kube-proxy. 

     * Sets up the search conditions for listing duplicate host configurations.
     *
     * <p>This method configures the condition bean with search criteria from the pager,
     * including regular name wildcards and duplicate hostname wildcards.
     * Results are ordered by sort order and creation time in ascending order.</p>
     *
     * @param cb the condition bean to configure

        assertEquals("test\\*query\\?end", escaped3);

        // Test with no wildcards
        String query4 = "test query";
        String escaped4 = SuggestUtil.escapeWildcardQuery(query4);
        assertEquals("test query", escaped4);

        // Test with multiple wildcards
        String query5 = "***???";
        String escaped5 = SuggestUtil.escapeWildcardQuery(query5);

        String id = artifact.getGroupId() + ":" + artifact.getArtifactId();

        boolean matched = false;
        for (Iterator<String> i = patterns.iterator(); i.hasNext() & !matched; ) {
            // TODO what about wildcards? Just specifying groups? versions?
            if (id.equals(i.next())) {
                matched = true;
            }
        }
        return matched;
    }

    public List<String> getPatterns() {