* Refactor to simplify the hard-traveled path of the KubeletConfiguration object ([#29216](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29216), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))
* Fix overflow issue in controller-manager rate limiter ([#31396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31396), [@foxish](https://github.com/foxish))

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- Fixed clearing of rate-limiter for the queue of checks for cleaning stale pod disruption conditions. The bug could result in the PDB synchronization updates firing too often or the pod disruption cleanups taking too long to happen. ([#114770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kube...

- Expose `rest_client_rate_limiter_duration_seconds` metric to component-base to track client side rate limiter latency in seconds. Broken down by verb and URL. ([#100311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100311), [@IonutBajescu](https://github.com/IonutBajescu)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

- Fix clearing of rate-limiter for the queue of checks for cleaning stale pod disruption conditions. 

- Add `rest_client_rate_limiter_duration_seconds` metric to component-base to track client side rate limiter latency in seconds. Broken down by verb and URL. ([#88134](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88134), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

### Fixes

* 🐛 Allow exit code for dependencies with `yield` to always execute, by removing capacity limiter for them, to e.g. allow closing DB connections without deadlocks. PR [#5122](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5122) by [@adriangb](https://github.com/adriangb).