- Client-go: Optimized leaders renewing leases by updating leader lock optimistically without getting the record from the API server first. Also, a new metric `leader_election_slowpath_total` was added to allow users to monitor how many leader elections are updated non-optimistically.
   ([#122069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122069), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei))
- Locked the GA feature-gate `ConsistentHTTPGetHandlers` to default.

- Kubeadm: Switched kubeadm to start using the CRI client library instead of shelling out of the `crictl` binary
  for actions against a CRI endpoint. The kubeadm deb/rpm packages will continue to install the `cri-tools`
  package for one more release, but in you must adapt your scripts to install `crictl` manually from

## Changelog since v1.25.1

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Allow Label section in vsphere e2e cloudprovider configuration ([#112478](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112478), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

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### Auth

- Added `kubectl auth can-i --list` option, which allows users to  know what actions they can do in specific namespaces. ([#64820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64820), [@WanLinghao](https://github.com/WanLinghao))

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