collection algorithm. As a result, we observed an increase in memory usage for kube-apiserver in larger an heavily loaded clusters up to ~25% (with the benefit of API call latencies drop by up to 10x on 99th percentiles). If the memory increase is not acceptable for you you can mitigate by setting GOGC env variable (for our tests using GOGC=63 brings memory usage back to original value, although the exact value may depend on usage patterns on your cluster). ([#108870](https://github.com/kubernetes...

- Fixed a potential deadlock in the resource quota controller. Enabled recording partial usage info for quota objects specifying multiple resources, when only some of the resources' usage can be determined. ([#74747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74747), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- If a bad flag is supplied to a kubectl command, only a tip to run `--help` is printed, instead of the usage menu.  Usage menu is printed upon running `kubectl command --help`. ([#82423](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82423), [@sallyom](https://github.com/sallyom))

* When you install `"fastapi[all]"` it now also includes:
    * <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/usage/pydantic_settings/" target="_blank"><code>pydantic-settings</code></a> - for settings management.
    * <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/usage/types/extra_types/extra_types/" target="_blank"><code>pydantic-extra-types</code></a> - for extra types to be used with Pydantic.

- Introduces a metric source for HPAs which allows scaling based on container resource usage. ([#90691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90691), [@arjunrn](https://github.com/arjunrn)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Autoscaling and CLI]
- Kube-apiserver now deletes expired kube-apiserver Lease objects:

* Add apiserver metric for number of requests dropped because of inflight limit. ([#58340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58340), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* Add apiserver metric for current inflight-request usage. ([#58342](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58342), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* Update Calico version to v2.6.6 ([#58482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58482), [@tmjd](https://github.com/tmjd))

- Fixed an error when trying to expand a volume that does not require node expansion. ([#123055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123055), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Fixed an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes. ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset))

                  minimum time between updates to the dataplane for Felix''s embedded
                  kube-proxy.  Lower values give reduced set-up latency.  Higher values
                  reduce Felix CPU usage by batching up more work.  [Default: 1s]'
                pattern: ^([0-9]+(\\.[0-9]+)?(ms|s|m|h))*$
                type: string
              bpfL3IfacePattern:

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

### Feature

- Fix: get azure disk lun timeout issue ([#88158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88158), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fixed `threadSafeMap` high memory usage caused by indices that have churn of high-cardinality keys. E.g. namespaces ([#88007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88007), [@patrickshan](https://github.com/patrickshan)) [SIG API Machinery]