([#113329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113329), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar))
- '`registered_metric_total` will now report the number of metrics broken down by
  stability level and deprecated version.'
   ([#112907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112907), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch 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`...

## External Dependencies

							Type:        []string{"string"},
							Format:      "",
						},
					},
					"schema": {
						SchemaProps: spec.SchemaProps{

  // because the local default config is always assumed good.
  // You should not make assumptions about the node's method of determining config stability
  // and correctness, as this may change or become configurable in the future.
  // +optional
  optional NodeConfigSource lastKnownGood = 3;

	// because the local default config is always assumed good.
	// You should not make assumptions about the node's method of determining config stability
	// and correctness, as this may change or become configurable in the future.
	// +optional
	LastKnownGood *NodeConfigSource
	// Error describes any problems reconciling the Spec.ConfigSource to the Active config.

	"error":         "Error describes any problems reconciling the Spec.ConfigSource to the Active config. Errors may occur, for example, attempting to checkpoint Spec.ConfigSource...

tolerate the NoSchedule taint if the taint is added to a Node.  There is an open PR ([#48189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48189)) to resolve this issue, but as this issue also exists in 1.6, and as we do not wish to risk release stability by merging it directly prior to a release without sufficient testing, we have decided to defer merging the PR until the next point release for each minor version ([#48190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48190)).

* Protobuf...

  // because the local default config is always assumed good.
  // You should not make assumptions about the node's method of determining config stability
  // and correctness, as this may change or become configurable in the future.
  // +optional
  optional NodeConfigSource lastKnownGood = 3;

- Kubelet: the metric process_start_time_seconds be marked as with the ALPHA stability level. ([#85446](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85446), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Node]