- 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

## 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]

    * Remove deprecated vagrant kube-up.sh. ([#58118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58118),[@roberthbailey](https://github.com/roberthbailey))

* The DaemonSet controller, its integration tests, and its e2e tests, have been updated to use the apps/v1 API. Users should, but are not yet required to, update their scripts accordingly. ([#59883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59883), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns))

    * 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

* 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))

* 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

* 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))

* Fixes storage e2e test failures in GKE regional clusters. ([#61303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61303), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

- 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]