- A server-side apply request that makes unrelated changes to an object which has duplicate items in a keyed list no longer fails, and leaves the existing duplicate items as-is.

- Fixed a bug that prevents a PersistentVolume that has a PersistentVolumeClaim UID which doesn't exist in local cache but exists in etcd from being updated to the Released phase. ([#105211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105211), [@xiaopingrubyist](https://github.com/xiaopingrubyist))

ion ` to validate if the installed container runtime supports the RuntimeConfig gRPC method. If the container runtime does not support the RuntimeConfig gRPC method, kubeadm will print a warning message. 
  
  Once Kubernetes 1.36 is released, the kubelet might refuse to start if the CRI runtime does not support this feature. More information can be found in https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/09/12/kubernetes-v1-34-cri-cgroup-driver-lookup-now-ga/. ([#134906](https://github.com/kubernet...

- Updated distroless iptables to use released image `registry.k8s.io/build-image/distroless-iptables:v0.2.4` ([#117746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117746), [@xmudrii](https://github.com/xmudrii)) [SIG Testing]

### CSI Volume health monitoring
 

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API
- We improved readiness detection and smoothing to work well in a larger variety or use cases

### SIG-Azure

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For instance, given the declarations
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<pre>
var x = I(T{}).ab()   // x has an undetected, hidden dependency on a and b
var _ = sideEffect()  // unrelated to x, a, or b
var a = b
var b = 42

type I interface      { ab() []int }
type T struct{}
func (T) ab() []int   { return []int{a, b} }
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* 👷 Fix CI, do not attempt to publish `fastapi-slim`. PR [#14958](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14958) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
* ➖ Drop support for `fastapi-slim`, no more versions will be released, use only `"fastapi[standard]"` or `fastapi`. PR [#14957](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14957) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

natively within Kubernetes, without exposing an HTTP endpoint or
using an extra executable.

### Kubelet Credential Provider Graduates to Beta

Originally released as Alpha in Kubernetes 1.20, the kubelet's support for
[image credential providers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/kubelet-credential-provider/kubelet-credential-provider/)
has now graduated to Beta.

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