- Made legacy watch calls (`ResourceVersion` = 0 or unset) that generate init-events weigh higher in `API Priority and Fairness (APF)` seat usage. Properly accounting for their cost protects the API server from CPU overload. Users might see increased throttling of such calls as a result. ([#134601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134601), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

        if (sambaContainer == null || !sambaContainer.isRunning()) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Samba container is not running");
        }

        Exception lastException = null;
        // Increased timeout to 90 seconds to allow for container startup and Samba initialization
        for (int attempt = 0; attempt < 90; attempt++) {
            try {

- Resolves a performance regression in default 1.31+ configurations, related to the ConsistentListFromCache feature, where rapid create / update API requests across different namespaces encounter increased latency. ([#130136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130136), [@AwesomePatrol](https://github.com/AwesomePatrol)) [SIG API Machinery]
- The following roles have had `Watch` added to them (prefixed with `system:controller:`):

  - Expanded support for federated hybrid-cloud resources including ReplicaSets, Secrets, Namespaces and Events.
- **Security**
  - Increased pod-level security granularity (eg: Container Image Policies, AppArmor and `sysctl` support)
  - Increased cluster-level security granularity (eg: Access Review API)

## Features

- The maximum number of ports allowed in EndpointSlices has been increased from 100 to 20,000 ([#99795](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99795), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Network]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

* CSI detach timeout increased from 10 seconds to 2 minutes ([#84321](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84321), [@cduchesne](https://github.com/cduchesne))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* CSI detach timeout increased from 10 seconds to 2 minutes ([#84321](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84321), [@cduchesne](https://github.com/cduchesne))

New alpha features include:
* Online volume resizing will increase the filesystem size of a resized volume without requiring a Pod restart.
* AWS EBS and GCE PD volumes support increased limits on the maximum number of attached volumes per node.

   * rate, and ability to be implemented with O(1) time complexity. The initial LRU implementation
   * operates per-segment rather than globally for increased implementation simplicity. We expect
   * the cache hit rate to be similar to that of a global LRU algorithm.
   */

  // Constants

  /**

- Increase timeout for pod lifecycle test to reach pod status=ready ([#96691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96691), [@hh](https://github.com/hh))
- Increased `CSINodeIDMaxLength` from 128 bytes to 192 bytes. ([#98753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98753), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))