### Bug or Regression

- A pod that the Kubelet rejects was still considered as being accepted for a brief period of time after rejection, which might cause some pods to be rejected briefly that could fit on the node.  A pod that is still terminating (but has status indicating it has failed) may also still be consuming resources and so should also be considered. ([#104817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104817), [@s...

- Graduated SeccompDefault to `beta`. The Kubelet feature gate is now enabled by default and the configuration/CLI flag still defaults to `false`. ([#110805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110805), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Omit nil or empty field when calculating container hash value to avoid hash changed. For a new field with a non-nil default value in the container spec, the hash would still get changed. ([#57741](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57741), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

  - was declaring a job finished before counting all the created pods in the status
  - was leaving pods with finalizers, blocking pod and job deletions
  
  JobTrackingWithFinalizers is still disabled by default. ([#109486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109486), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

* Restored the ability of kubectl running inside a pod to consume resource files specifying a different namespace than...

  - Subtract DaemonSet pods' requests from node allocatable in the denominator while computing node utilization
  - Include taints by condition when determining if a node is unready/still starting
  - Fix `update-vendor.sh` to work on OSX and zsh
  - Add best-effort eviction for DaemonSet pods while scaling down non-empty nodes
  - Add build support for ARM64
  
  ### AliCloud

    * kubectl exec now allows using --pod-running-timeout flag to wait till at least one pod is running.
* kubeadm: add optional ECDSA support. ([#76390](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76390), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov))
    * kubeadm still generates RSA keys when deploying a node, but also accepts ECDSA

cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability, it can be re-enabled with a `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion` feature gate. ([#123973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123973), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API...

* kubeadm deb/rpm packages: cAdvisor doesn't listen on `0.0.0.0:4194` without authentication/authorization because of the possible information leakage. The cAdvisor API can still be accessed via `https://{node-ip}:10250/stats/`, though. ([kubernetes/release#356](https://github.com/kubernetes/release/pull/356), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))


### Cloud Providers