- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#95725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95725), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- Add `csi_operations_seconds` metric on kubelet that exposes CSI operations duration and status for node CSI operations. ([#98979](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98979), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227)) [SIG Instrumentation and Storage]

### SIG Instrumentation

* Added prometheus cluster monitoring addon to kube-up. ([#62195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62195), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
* Kubelet now exposes a new endpoint, `/metrics/probes`, which exposes a Prometheus metric containing the liveness and/or readiness probe results for a container. ([#61369](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61369), [@rramkumar1](https://github.com/rramkumar1))

#### **Hardware Accelerators**

*   Kubelet now exposes metrics for NVIDIA GPUs attached to the containers. ([#55188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55188),[ @mindprince](https://github.com/mindprince))

- `kubelet` now emits a metric for end-to-end pod startup latency, including image pull. ([#121041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121041), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))
- `kubelet` now exposes latency metrics of different stages of the node startup. ([#118568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118568), [@qiutongs](https://github.com/qiutongs))

### Documentation

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.25.0 - v1.25.3
  - kube-apiserver v1.24.0 - v1.24.7
  - kube-apiserver v1.23.0 - v1.23.13

* Revert deprecation of vCenter port in vSphere Cloud Provider. ([#49689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49689), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))
* Fluentd-gcp DaemonSet exposes different set of metrics. ([#48812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48812), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

Special thanks to [@nzig](https://github.com/nzig) for the core implementation and to [@adriangb](https://github.com/adriangb) for the inspiration and idea with [Xpresso](https://github.com/adriangb/xpresso)! 🚀

### Features

* ✨Add support for PEP-593 `Annotated` for specifying dependencies and parameters. PR [#4871](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/4871) by [@nzig](https://github.com/nzig).

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<h3 id="Rune_literals">Rune literals</h3>

<p>
A rune literal represents a <a href="#Constants">rune constant</a>,
an integer value identifying a Unicode code point.
A rune literal is expressed as one or more characters enclosed in single quotes,
as in <code>'x'</code> or <code>'\n'</code>.
Within the quotes, any character may appear except newline and unescaped single

* The kube-apiserver has improved behavior for both startup and shutdown sequences and also now exposes `/readyz` for readiness checking. Readyz includes all existing healthz checks but also adds a shutdown check. When a cluster admin initiates a shutdown, the kube-apiserver will try to process existing requests (for the duration of request timeout)...