* Fix device mountable volume names in DSW to prevent races in device mountable plugin, e.g. local. ([#71509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71509), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

* 📝 Add External Link: Instrument a FastAPI service adding tracing with OpenTelemetry and send/show traces in Grafana Tempo. PR [#9440](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/9440) by [@softwarebloat](https://github.com/softwarebloat).

- Decoupled `TaintManager` from `NodeLifeCycleController` (KEP-3902). ([#119208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119208), [@atosatto](https://github.com/atosatto))
- Enabled traces for KMSv2 encrypt/decrypt operations. ([#121095](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121095), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix data race in kube-scheduler when preemption races with a Pod update. ([#116440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116440), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

* AWS: Remove duplicate calls to DescribeInstance during volume operations ([#39842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39842), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Fixed panic in vSphere e2e tests. ([#115863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115863), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix data race in kube-scheduler when preemption races with a Pod update. ([#116438](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116438), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

* Added support for network spaces in the kubeapi-load-balancer charm. ([#58708](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58708), [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346))

* Move private key parsing from serviceaccount/jwt.go to client-go/util/cert ([#40907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40907), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))
* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

	bucketName := getRandomBucketName()
	// Block 1: Testing for racy access
	// The assertion is removed from this block since the purpose of this block is to find races
	// The purpose this block is not to check for correctness of functionality
	// Run the test with -race flag to utilize this
	var wg sync.WaitGroup
	for range testConcurrencyLevel {
		wg.Add(1)
		go func() {
			defer wg.Done()

- Trace output in apiserver logs is more organized and comprehensive. Traces are nested, and for all non-long running request endpoints, the entire filter chain is instrumented (e.g. authentication check is included). ([#88936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88936), [@jpbet...