* OpenSSL CVE fixes
* ContainerVm/GCI image: try to use ifdown/ifup if available ([#33595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33595), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
* Make the informer library available for the go client library. ([#32718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32718), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

- Kubeadm: improved retries when updating node information, in case `kube-apiserver` is temporarily unavailable ([#114176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114176), [@QuantumEnergyE](https://github.com/QuantumEnergyE))

* [alpha] Make locally attached (non-network attached) storage available as a persistent volume source. For more information, see [Storage Volumes - local](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#local).

#### Volume Plugins

* [stable] Expose storage usage metrics

  * The available capacity of a given Persistent Volume (PV) is available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API.

* [stable] Volume plugin metrics

- Fix bug that would let the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale down despite at least one metric being unavailable/invalid ([#99514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99514), [@mikkeloscar](https://github.com/mikkeloscar)) [SIG Apps and Autoscaling]

        assertTrue(provider.isAvailable(), "Returned provider should be available");
    }

    @Test
    public void testCreateProviderTcp() {
        RdmaProvider provider = RdmaProviderFactory.createProvider("tcp");
        assertNotNull(provider, "TCP provider should always be available");
        assertTrue(provider.isAvailable(), "TCP provider should be available");

     *
     * @return true if at least one RDMA provider is available
     */
    public static boolean isRdmaAvailable() {
        return selectBestProvider() != null;
    }

    /**
     * Get list of all available RDMA providers
     *
     * @return list of available providers
     */
    public static List<String> getAvailableProviders() {

- Fixed error "dbus: connection closed by user" after dbus daemon restarts. ([#110496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110496), [@kolyshkin](https://github.com/kolyshkin))
- Fixed image pull failure when `IMDS` is unavailable in kubelet startup. ([#110523](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110523), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

        // Test availability check
        assertTrue(thumbnailGenerator.isAvailable());
    }

    public void test_destroy() {
        // Test destroy method - should not throw exception
        thumbnailGenerator.destroy();
        // After destroy, generator should not be available
        assertFalse(thumbnailGenerator.isAvailable());
    }

    public void test_createTask_withValidParams() {

- Removed general available feature gate `CPUManager`. ([#129296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129296), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]