- Fix kubelet from panic after getting the wrong signal ([#98200](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98200), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fix repeatedly acquire the inhibit lock ([#98088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98088), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

- Kubeadm: allow the "certs check-expiration" command to not require the existence of the cluster CA key (ca.key file) when checking the expiration of managed certificates in kubeconfig files. ([#106930](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106930), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster...

### Bug or Regression

Linux-specific securityContext fields. If a 1.25+ cluster has unsupported [out-of-skew](https://kubernetes.io/releases/version-skew-policy/#kubelet) nodes prior to v1.23 and wants to ensure namespaces enforcing the `restricted` policy continue to require Linux-specific securityContext fields on all pods, ensure a version of the `restricted` prior to v1.25 is selected by labeling the namespace (for example, `pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce-version: v1.24`) ([#105919](https://github.com/kubernet...

- Kubeadm: warn but do not error out on missing "ca.key" files for root CA, front-proxy CA and etcd CA, during "kubeadm join --control-plane" if the user has provided all certificates, keys and kubeconfig files which require signing with the given CA keys. ([#94988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94988), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

   ([#122447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122447), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))
- 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))

- kube-proxy: HealthzBindAddress and MetricsBindAddress now support ipv6 addresses. ([#76320](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76320),...

        * `etcd_request_cache_add_latency_seconds`
        * `etcd_request_latency_seconds`
        * `transformation_latencies_seconds`
        * `data_key_generation_latencies_seconds`
* acquire lock before operating unschedulablepodsmap ([#73022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73022), [@denkensk](https://github.com/denkensk))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix 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)) [SIG Node and Storage]

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

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