- Promoted the `JobManagedBy` feature to general availability. The `JobManagedBy` feature gate was locked to `true` and will be removed in a future Kubernetes release. ([#135080](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135080), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and...

- kube-controller-manager currently needs a writable `--cert-dir` (default is `/var/run/kubernetes`) for generating self-signed certificates, when no `--tls-cert-file` or `--tls-private-key-file` are provided.

                    return false;
                }
            }

            return true;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Docker availability check failed: " + e.getMessage());
            return false;
        }
    }

automate deployment and rolling updates of applications, specified
declaratively. It handles versioning, multiple simultaneous rollouts,
aggregating status across all pods, maintaining application availability, and
rollback.
  * <strong>Automated cluster management: </strong>
     * Kubernetes clusters can now span zones within a cloud provider. Pods from a

     *
     * * **Unreachable IP addresses.** If the URL's host has multiple IP addresses,
     *   failure to reach any individual IP address doesn't fail the overall request. This can
     *   increase availability of multi-homed services.
     *
     * * **Stale pooled connections.** The [ConnectionPool] reuses sockets
     *   to decrease request latency, but these connections will occasionally time out.
     *

- Dynamic Resource Allocation: Graduated core functionality to general availability (GA). This newly stable feature uses the _structured parameters_ flavor of DRA. ([#132706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132706), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Autoscaling, Etcd, Node, Scheduling...

    - [EndpointSlices are now enabled by default](#endpointslices-are-now-enabled-by-default)
    - [Ingress graduates to General Availability](#ingress-graduates-to-general-availability)
    - [seccomp graduates to General Availability](#seccomp-graduates-to-general-availability)
    - [Production images moved to community control](#production-images-moved-to-community-control)

### SIG Azure

For 1.13 SIG Azure was focused on adding additional Azure Disk support for Ultra SSD, Standard SSD, and Premium Azure Files. Azure Availability Zones and cross resource group nodes were also moved from Alpha to Beta in 1.13.

### SIG Big Data

### Removal of several beta Kubernetes APIs

- Graduated pod scheduling gates to general availability.
  The `PodSchedulingReadiness` feature gate no longer has any effect, and the