- Fixes a bug that could result in the EndpointSlice controller unnecessarily updating EndpointSlices associated with a Service that had Topology Aware Hints enabled. ([#105267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105267), [@llhuii](https://github.com/llhuii))

    * Action required: Before upgrading your Kubernetes clusters, double check if you had configured webhooks for cluster-scoped objects (e.g., nodes, persistentVolume), these webhooks will start to take effect. Delete/modify the configs if that's not desirable.

### Other notable changes

    assertThat(cache.hitCount()).isEqualTo(2)
    assertThat(response2.handshake!!.cipherSuite).isEqualTo(
      response1.handshake!!.cipherSuite,
    )
  }

  /**
   * We've had bugs where caching and cross-protocol redirects yield class cast exceptions internal
   * to the cache because we incorrectly assumed that HttpsURLConnection was always HTTPS and

### Kustomize Updates in Kubectl

[Kustomize](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize) version in kubectl had a jump from v2.0.3 to [v4.0.5](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98946). Kustomize is now treated as a library and future updates will be less sporadic.

### Default Container Annotation

        return whenClosed = new CountDownLatch(1);
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns an object that can be used to wait until this objects' deferred closeables have all had
   * {@link Runnable}s that close them submitted to each one's closing {@link Executor}.
   */
  @VisibleForTesting
  CountDownLatch whenClosedCountDown() {
    return closeables.whenClosedCountDown();
  }

        },
        "dutch_stop": {
          "type":       "stop",

        },
        "dutch_stop": {
          "type":       "stop",

- Kubeadm: remove the deprecated flag `--insecure-port` from the kube-apiserver manifest that kubeadm manages. The flag had no effect since 1.20, since the insecure serving of the component was disabled in the same version. ([#102121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102121), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- 'Promoted `cronjob_job_creation_skew` metric to stable to follow the cronjob v2 controller,
  the following metrics had their name updated to match metrics API guidelines:

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126691), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]