- Improved reboot event reporting. The kubelet will only emit one reboot Event when a server-level reboot 

        features by binning their values
*   Improved **image preprocessing** layers: `CenterCrop`, `Rescaling`
*   Improved **image augmentation** layers: `RandomCrop`, `RandomFlip`,
    `RandomTranslation`, `RandomRotation`, `RandomHeight`, `RandomWidth`,
    `RandomZoom`, `RandomContrast`
*   Improved **`TextVectorization`** layer, which handles string tokenization,

The syntax using `typing` is **compatible** with all versions, from Python 3.6 to the latest ones, including Python 3.9, Python 3.10, etc.

As Python advances, **newer versions** come with improved support for these type annotations and in many cases you won't even need to import and use the `typing` module to declare the type annotations.

### AWS

- Improved performance of `Endpoint` and `EndpointSlice` controllers when there are a large number of services in a single namespace by making pod-to-service lookup asynchronous. ([#134739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134739), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG Apps and Network]

 *       significantly worse than a {@code PriorityQueue} with manual eviction above the maximum
 *       size. In many cases {@link Ordering#leastOf} may work for your use case with significantly
 *       improved (and asymptotically superior) performance.
 *   <li>The retrieval operations {@link #peek}, {@link #peekFirst}, {@link #peekLast}, {@link
 *       #element}, and {@link #size} are constant-time.

### Scheduling

- Improved fairness of the scheduling queue by placing pods which are attempted recently behind other pods with the same priority. ([#73700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73700), [@denkensk](https://github.com/denkensk))

- Improved scheduling performance when many nodes, and prefilter returned 1-2 nodes (e.g. daemonset)
  

  - [Changelog since v1.29.3](#changelog-since-v1293)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-2)
    - [CVE-2024-3177: Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin](#cve-2024-3177-bypassing-mountable-secrets-policy-imposed-by-the-serviceaccount-admission-plugin)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-11)
    - [Feature](#feature-7)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-8)

- Improved FormatMap: Improves performance by about 4x, or nearly 2x in the worst case ([#112661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112661), [@aimuz](https://github.com/aimuz)) [SIG Node]