* `kubefed init` correctly checks for RBAC API enablement. ([#48077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48077), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixes a kube-apiserver log volume regression bug in default 1.27 configurations (introduced in 1.26, activated by the AggregatedDiscoveryEndpoint feature enablement in 1.27) ([#122074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122074), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Node

SIG Node iterated on the ability to support more workloads with better performance and improved reliability.  Alpha features were improved around hardware accelerator support, device plugins enablement, and cpu pinning policies to enable us to graduate these features to beta in a future release.  In addition, a number of reliability and performance enhancements were made across the node to help operators in production.

- Fixes a kube-apiserver log volume regression bug in default 1.27 configurations (introduced in 1.26, activated by the AggregatedDiscoveryEndpoint feature enablement in 1.27) ([#122096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122096), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh)) [SIG API Machinery]

[soft-reserve a range for static IP address assignments](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#service-ip-static-sub-range)
to Services.
With the manual enablement of this feature, the cluster will prefer automatic assignment from
the pool of Service IP addresses thereby reducing the risk of collision.

A Service `ClusterIP` can be assigned: