* If a pod has a running instance, the stats of its previously terminated instances will not show up in the kubelet summary stats any more for CRI runtimes like containerd and cri-o. ([#77426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77426), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

`kubeadm` applies a number of deprecations and removals of deprecated features in this release. More details are available in the Urgent Upgrade Notes and Kind / Deprecation sections.

### Pod Hostname as FQDN graduates to Beta

    - [Promoted Local Ephemeral Storage Capacity Isolation to Stable](#promoted-local-ephemeral-storage-capacity-isolation-to-stable)
    - [Promoted core CSI Migration to Stable](#promoted-core-csi-migration-to-stable)
    - [Promoted CSI Ephemeral Volume to Stable](#promoted-csi-ephemeral-volume-to-stable)

## Changelog since v1.23.16

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

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

    - [Container Storage Interface graduations](#container-storage-interface-graduations)
    - [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)

## Changelog since v1.24.10

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

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

- Make node lease renew interval more heuristic based on node-status-update-frequency in kubelet ([#80173](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80173), [@gaorong](https://github.com/gaorong))

#### Extensibility

- The community has been asking for continuing support of extensibility, so this cycle features more work around CRDs and API Machinery. Most of the enhancements in this cycle were from SIG API Machinery and related areas.

### Extensibility around core Kubernetes APIs

* genericapiserver: cut off more dependencies – episode 3 ([#40426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40426), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* genericapiserver: more dependency cutoffs ([#40216](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40216), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

    - [**Cluster Federation**](#cluster-federation)
      - [Placement Policy](#placement-policy)
      - [Cluster Selection](#cluster-selection)
    - [**Instrumentation**](#instrumentation)
      - [Core Metrics API](#core-metrics-api)
    - [**Internationalization**](#internationalization)
    - [**kubectl (CLI)**](#kubectl-cli-1)
    - [**Networking**](#networking)
      - [Network Policy](#network-policy)