- Kubeadm: get k8s CI version markers from k8s infra bucket ([#98836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98836), [@hasheddan](https://github.com/hasheddan)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

- Kubeadm: get k8s CI version markers from k8s infra bucket ([#98836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98836), [@hasheddan](https://github.com/hasheddan)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

- Fixed admission metrics histogram bucket sizes to cover 25ms to ~2.5 seconds. ([#78608](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78608), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- `apiserver_admission_webhook_admission_duration_seconds` buckets have been expanded, 25s is now the largest bucket size to match the webhook default timeout. ([#115802](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115802), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

- Kubeadm: update references to legacy artifacts locations, the `ci-cross` prefix has been removed from the version match as it does not exist in the new `gs://k8s-release-dev` bucket. ([#103813](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103813), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

- Fix the `cloudprovider_azure_api_request_duration_seconds` metric buckets to correctly capture the latency metrics. Previously, the majority of the calls would fall in the "+Inf" bucket. ([#95376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95376), [@marwanad](https://github.com/marwanad)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]

- Azure File CSI migration is now GA. ([#113160](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113160), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Changed `preemption_victims` metric bucket from `LinearBuckets` to `ExponentialBuckets`. ([#112939](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112939), [@lengrongfu](https://github.com/lengrongfu))

  - false/ignore - perform no validation, silently dropping invalid fields from the object. ([#108350](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108350), [@kevindelgado](https://github.com/kevindelgado))

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    *   Log some errors on Android to logcat.
    *   Match FakeQuant numerics in TFLite to improve accuracy of TFLite
        quantized inference models.
    *   Optional bucket location check for the GCS Filesystem.
    *   Performance enhancements for StringSplitOp & StringSplitV2Op.
    *   Performance improvements for regex replace operations.

* Third Party Resource tests in the e2e suite were incorrectly marked as part of the conformance bucket.  They are alpha and are not required for conformance. ([#52823](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52823), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))