- Refactored `test/e2e/framework` so that the core framework is smaller. Optional functionality like resource monitoring, log size monitoring, metrics gathering and debug information dumping must be imported by specific e2e test suites. Init packages are provided which can be imported to re-enable the functionality that traditionally was in the core framework. If you have...

* You can now use a security context with Windows containers
([#64009](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64009), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Added e2e regression tests for kubelet security. ([#64140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64140), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- Kubernetes is now built with Go 1.20.9 ([#121025](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121025), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- E2e framework: retrying after intermittent apiserver failures was fixed in WaitForPodsResponding ([#120559](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120559), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Testing]

### Bug or Regression

  
      `kube-proxy --feature-gates NFTablesProxyMode=true --proxy-mode nftables`
  
  This is currently an alpha-level feature and while it probably will not
  eat your data, it may nibble at it a bit. (It passes e2e testing but has
  not yet seen real-world use.)
  
  At this point it should be functionally mostly identical to the iptables
  mode, except that it does not (and will not) support Service NodePorts on

## Changelog since v1.24.5

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Allow Label section in vsphere e2e cloudprovider configuration ([#112479](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112479), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

    * Introduces a tactic for keeping templates in sync with upstream eliminating template drift
    * Adds CNI support to the Juju Charms
    * Adds durable storage support to the Juju Charms
    * Introduces an e2e Charm layer for repeatable testing efforts and validation of clusters

### libvirt CoreOS

* E2E tests no longer add command line flags directly to the command line, test suites that want that need to be updated if they don't use HandleFlags ([#75593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75593), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
    * loading a -viper-config=e2e.yaml with suffix (introduced in 1.13) works again and now has a regression test

* Use the mounted "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token" as the token file for running in-cluster based e2e testing. ([#69273](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69273), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

* Make error message and service event message more clear ([#86078](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86078), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* e2e-test-framework: add e2e test namespace dump if all tests succeed but the cleanup fails. ([#85542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85542), [@schrodit](https://github.com/schrodit))
* SafeSysctlWhitelist: add net.ipv4.ping_group_range ([#8546

- Detailed scheduler scoring result can be printed at verbose level 10. ([#89384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89384), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]
- E2e.test can print the list of conformance tests that need to pass for the cluster to be conformant. ([#88924](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88924), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Architecture and Testing]