### Feature

- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.16.10 (#106223, @cpanato) [SIG Cloud Provider, Instrumentation, Release and Testing]
- Update debian-base, debian-iptables, setcap images to pick up CVE fixes
  - Debian-base to v1.9.0
  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7
  - setcap to v2.0.4 (#106143, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

## Changelog since v1.20.12

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Update debian-base, debian-iptables, setcap images to pick up CVE fixes
  - Debian-base to v1.9.0
  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7 (#106148, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Updates `debian-iptables` to v1.6.7 to pick up CVE fixes. ([#104970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104970), [@PushkarJ](https://github.com/PushkarJ))
- Updates the following images to pick up CVE fixes:
  - `debian` to v1.9.0
  - `debian-iptables` to v1.6.6

- Updated cAdvisor to v0.45.0. ([#111647](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111647), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage))
- Updated debian-base, debian-iptables, and setcap images:
  - debian-base:bullseye-v1.3.0
  - debian-iptables:bullseye-v1.4.0
  - setcap:bullseye-v1.3.0 ([#110558](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110558), [@wespanther](https://github.com/wespanther))

### Signing Release Artifacts

Release artifacts are [signed](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/3031) using [cosign](https://github.com/sigstore/cosign)
signatures
and there is experimental support for [verifying image signatures](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/verify-signed-images/).

   ([#123343](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123343), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander))
- Updated `distroless-iptables` to `v0.5.0`, debian-base to `bookworm-v1.0.1`, and setcap to `bookworm-v1.0.1`.
   ([#123170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123170), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))
- `NewVolumeManagerReconstruction` feature is now GA.

### Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)

- Add delays between goroutines for vm instance update ([#88094](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88094), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Bump debian-base to v1.0.1 and debian-iptables to v11.0.3 ([#88882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88882), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle, Release and Testing]

* PodDisruptionBudget now uses [ControllerRef](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/api-machinery/controller-ref.md) to make the right decisions about Pod eviction even if the built in application controllers have overlapping selectors.

### **Security**
#### Admission Control

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.21.9
  - update debian-base to bookworm-v1.0.2 ([#124197](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124197), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Cloud Provider, Release, Storage and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

* Bump addon-manager to v9.0.1 ([#77282](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77282), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
    * Rebase image on debian-base:v1.0.0