([#122292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122292), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- JWTs used in service account and OIDC authentication are now strictly parsed to confirm that they use compact serialization. Other encodings were not previously accepted, but would result in different unspecific errors. ([#123540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123540), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

- Fixed Azure Container Registry anonymous repo image pull error ([#74715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74715), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fixed parse devicePath issue on Azure Disk  ([#74499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74499), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

### CLI

* Make fluentd pods critical ([#39146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39146), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Fluentd/Elastisearch add-on: correctly parse and index kubernetes labels ([#36857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36857), [@Shrugs](https://github.com/Shrugs))

### Heapster

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* Fixed race conditions around devicemanager Allocate() and endpoint deletion. ([#60856](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60856), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

* kubelet initial flag parse now normalizes flags instead of exiting.  ([#61053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61053), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- Fix bug in JSON path parser where an error occurs when a range is empty ([#95933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95933), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG API Machinery]

* In case kubeadm can't access the current Kubernetes version remotely and fails to parse the git-based version it falls back to a static predefined value of k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/constants.CurrentKubernetesVersion. ([#72454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72454), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov))

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.32+ regression validating OIDC and anonymous authentication flags are mutually exclusive to authentication configuration. Fixes an issue where the kube-apiserver `/flagz` endpoint would not respond correctly with parsed flags value. ([#130332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130332), [@richabanker](https://github.com/richabanker)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

* Fixed log fallback termination messages when using docker with journald log driver ([#52503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52503), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith))
* falls back to parse Docker runtime version as generic if not semver ([#54040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54040), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

* Fix kubelet start failure issue on Azure Stack due to InstanceMetadata setting ([#74936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74936), [@rjaini](https://github.com/rjaini))
* fix parse devicePath issue on Azure Disk ([#74499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74499), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))