- Introduces a metric source for HPAs which allows scaling based on container resource usage. ([#90691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90691), [@arjunrn](https://github.com/arjunrn)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Autoscaling and CLI]
- Kube-apiserver now deletes expired kube-apiserver Lease objects:

 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>These features are all optional; caches can be created using all or none of them. By default,
 * cache instances created by {@code CacheBuilder} will not perform any type of eviction.
 *
 * <p>Usage example:
 *
 * {@snippet :
 * LoadingCache<Key, Graph> graphs = CacheBuilder.newBuilder()
 *     .maximumSize(10000)
 *     .expireAfterWrite(Duration.ofMinutes(10))
 *     .removalListener(MY_LISTENER)

* When you install `"fastapi[all]"` it now also includes:
    * <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/usage/pydantic_settings/" target="_blank"><code>pydantic-settings</code></a> - for settings management.
    * <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/usage/types/extra_types/extra_types/" target="_blank"><code>pydantic-extra-types</code></a> - for extra types to be used with Pydantic.

   * other words, each input value produces an entry in the map whose key is the result of applying
   * {@code keyFunction} to that value. These entries appear in the same order as the input values.
   * Example usage:
   *
   * {@snippet :
   * Color red = new Color("red", 255, 0, 0);
   * ...
   * ImmutableSet<Color> allColors = ImmutableSet.of(red, green, blue);
   *
   * ImmutableMap<String, Color> colorForName =

   * other words, each input value produces an entry in the map whose key is the result of applying
   * {@code keyFunction} to that value. These entries appear in the same order as the input values.
   * Example usage:
   *
   * {@snippet :
   * Color red = new Color("red", 255, 0, 0);
   * ...
   * ImmutableSet<Color> allColors = ImmutableSet.of(red, green, blue);
   *
   * ImmutableMap<String, Color> colorForName =

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

### Feature

- Fix: get azure disk lun timeout issue ([#88158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88158), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fixed `threadSafeMap` high memory usage caused by indices that have churn of high-cardinality keys. E.g. namespaces ([#88007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88007), [@patrickshan](https://github.com/patrickshan)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixes high CPU usage in kubectl drain ([#95260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95260), [@amandahla](https://github.com/amandahla)) [SIG CLI]

* Add apiserver metric for number of requests dropped because of inflight limit. ([#58340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58340), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* Add apiserver metric for current inflight-request usage. ([#58342](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58342), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

### SIG Network

For 1.13, the areas of focus were in IPv6, DNS improvements and some smaller items:
CoreDNS is now the default cluster DNS passing all of the scale/resource usage tests
Node-local DNS cache feature is available in Alpha. This feature deploys a lightweight DNS caching Daemonset that avoids the conntrack and converts queries from UDP to more reliable TCP.