- Kubeadm: make sure images are pre-pulled even if a tag did not change but their contents changed ([#85603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85603), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Fixed a bug where a change in the `appProtocol` for a Service did not trigger a load balancer update. ([#113033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113033), [@MartinForReal](https://github.com/MartinForReal)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

* `kubeadm join` is now blocking on the kubelet performing the TLS Bootstrap properly. Earlier, `kubeadm join` only did the discovery part and exited successfully without checking that the kubelet actually started properly and performed the TLS bootstrap correctly. Now, as kubeadm runs some post-join steps (for example, annotating the Node API object with the CRISocket),...

- Fixed a bug where a change in the `appProtocol` for a Service did not trigger a load balancer update. ([#113032](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113032), [@MartinForReal](https://github.com/MartinForReal)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

* Fixing a bug in OpenStack cloud provider, where dual stack deployments (IPv4 and IPv6) did not work well when using kubenet as the network plugin. ([#59749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59749), [@zioproto](https://github.com/zioproto))

* Fixed a bug in the single-numa-node policy of the TopologyManager.  Previously, pods that only requested CPU resources and did not request any third-party devices would fail to launch with a TopologyAffinity error. Now they will launch successfully. ([#83697](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83697), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))

## Changelog since v1.28.12

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Fixed a bug in the API server where empty collections of ValidatingAdmissionPolicies did not have an `items` field. ([#126159](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126159), [@xyz-li](https://github.com/xyz-li)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixed a regression which prevented pods with `docker/default` seccomp annotations from being created in 1.19 if a PodSecurityPolicy was in place which did not allow `runtime/default` seccomp profiles. ([#95985](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95985), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Auth]

* If the `TokenRequestProjection` feature gate is disabled, projected serviceAccountToken volume sources are now dropped at object creation time, or at object update time if the existing object did not have a projected serviceAccountToken volume source. Previously, these would result in validation errors. ([#72714](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72714), [@mourya007](https://github.com/mourya007))

* Bump addon-manager to v9.0.1 ([#77282](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77282), [@MrHohn](h...