- `CSINodeExpandSecret` feature has been promoted to `GA` in this release and is enabled
  by default. The CSI drivers can make use of the `secretRef` values passed in `NodeExpansion`
  request optionally sent by the CSI Client from this release onwards. ([#121303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121303), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

### Promoted SeccompDefault to Beta

- Kube-proxy: Traffic from the cluster directed to ExternalIPs is always sent directly to the Service. ([#96296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96296), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Fixed an issue with missing `apiVersion/kind` in object data sent to admission webhooks ([#74448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74448), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

			mustGetPutObjReader(t, strings.NewReader(part.inputReaderData), part.inputDataSize, part.inputMd5, ""), opts)
		if err != nil {
			t.Fatalf("%s : %s", instanceType, err)
		}
	}
	// Parts to be sent as input for CompleteMultipartUpload.
	inputParts := []struct {
		parts []CompletePart
	}{
		// inputParts - 0.
		// Case for replicating ETag mismatch.
		{
			[]CompletePart{

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* Fixes an issue with missing apiVersion/kind in object data sent to admission webhooks ([#74448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74448), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Set metrics-server's metric-resolution to 15s. ([#117121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117121), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]
- SubjectAccessReview requests sent to webhook authorizers now default `spec.resourceAttributes.version` to `*` if unset. ([#116937](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116937), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan)) [SIG Apps and Auth]

- AdmissionReview objects sent for the creation of Namespace API objects now populate the `namespace` attribute consistently (previously the `namespace` attribute was empty for Namespace creation via POST requests, and populated for Namespace creation via server-side-apply PATCH...