metrics values. It provides the Metrics API that is used by `kubectl top`, and horizontal pod autoscaler. Note that it doesn't include some features of Heapster, such as short term metrics for graphs in kube-dashboard and dedicated push sinks, which proved hard to maintain and scale. Clusters using Heapster for transferring metrics into long-term storage should consider using their metric solution's native Kubernetes support, if present, or should consider alternative solutions. ([#62328](https://g...

respected. This may result in unexpected behavior since the default timeout (if not specified) is `1s` which may be too small for some exec probes. Ensure that pods relying on this behavior are updated to correctly handle probe timeouts. See [configure probe](https://docs.k8s.io/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#configure-probes) section of the documentation for more details.

  - This change in behavior may be unexpected for some clusters and can be...

    - [SIG Windows development tools](#sig-windows-development-tools)
    - [Deploy a more secure control plane with kubeadm](#deploy-a-more-secure-control-plane-with-kubeadm)
    - [etcd moves to version 3.5.0](#etcd-moves-to-version-350)
    - [Kubernetes Node system swap support](#kubernetes-node-system-swap-support)
    - [Cluster-wide seccomp defaults](#cluster-wide-seccomp-defaults)

## Changelog since v1.23.16

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ... 

have both been migrated.

### gRPC Probes Graduate to Beta

With Kubernetes 1.24, the [gRPC probes functionality](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/2727)
has entered beta and is available by default. You can now [configure startup, liveness, and readiness probes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#configure-probes) for your gRPC app

* Fixes a bug in kubeadm that caused init and join to hang indefinitely in specific conditions. ([#85156](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85156), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))
* Ensure health probes are created for local traffic policy UDP services on Azure ([#84802](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84802), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Fixed an issue where kubelet does not set case-insensitive headers for http probes. (#117182, @dddddai) ([#117333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117333), [@dddddai](https://github.com/dddddai)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Node]

### Feature

## Changelog since v1.19.10

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 
  restarting of "healthy" kube-apiserver instance(s) by kubelet. ([#101113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101113), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Kubernetes now supports up to 5,000 nodes via etcd v3, which is enabled by default.
* [Role-based access control (RBAC)](https://kubernetes.io//docs/admin/authorization/rbac) has graduated to beta, and defines secure default roles for control plane, node, and controller components.
* The [`kubeadm` cluster bootstrap tool](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kubeadm/) has graduated to beta. Some highlights:

* azure: update disk lock logic per vm during attach/detach to allow concurrent updates for different nodes. ([#85115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85115), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))
* Ensure health probes are created for local traffic policy UDP services on Azure ([#85327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85327), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))