## Changelog since v1.22.14

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112401), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG API Machinery]

- 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....

- Fixes an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

    * The vSphere cloud provider has a cleanup function with a loop,
    * inside of which a write lock was intended to prevent races against
    * VM creation, but the usage of the sync.RWMutex type is incorrect,
    * plus is placed in a defer call so the locking is effectively
    * nonexistent.  This patch adds an anonymous function call inside

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

            Maven required to use the resulting plugin.<br>
            In Maven 2, this was also specifying the minimum version of Maven required to build a
            project, but this usage is <b>deprecated</b> in Maven 3 and not checked any more: use
            the <a href="https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/enforcer-rules/requireMavenVersion.html">Maven Enforcer Plugin's

- Kubelet: Fixes memory usage within the kubelet's inotify subsystem. ([#108335](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108335), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Node and Storage]

- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112398), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG API Machinery]

- kubeadm no longer allows using v1alpha3 configs for anything else than converting them to `v1beta1`. ([#74025](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74025), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))
- kubeadm: now allows the usage of `--kubeconfig-dir` and `--config` flags on kubeadm init ([#73998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73998), [@yagonobre](https://github.com/yagonobre))

                Read more about the available configuration options in the
                [Swagger UI docs](https://swagger.io/docs/open-source-tools/swagger-ui/usage/oauth2/).
                """
            ),
        ] = None,
        middleware: Annotated[
            Optional[Sequence[Middleware]],
            Doc(
                """