* Open API now includes strategic merge patch tags (previously only in go struct tags) ([#44121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44121), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))

  * Plugins

- Introduced a breaking change to the `resource.k8s.io` API in its `AllocationResult` struct. This change allows a kubelet plugin for the `DynamicResourceAllocation` feature to service allocations from multiple resource driver controllers. ([#116332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116332), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))...

- kubeadm: The ControlPlaneEndpoint was moved from the API config struct to ClusterConfiguration ([#67830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67830), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

* Mark image as deliberately optional in v1 Container struct.  Many objects in the Kubernetes API inherit the container struct and only Pods require the field to be set. ([#48406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48406), [@gyliu513](https://github.com/gyliu513))

* Mark image as deliberately optional in v1 Container struct.  Many objects in the Kubernetes API inherit the container struct and only Pods require the field to be set. ([#48406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48406), [@gyliu513](https://github.com/gyliu513))

                the OpenAPI version. But some tools, even though they might be
                compatible with OpenAPI 3.1.0, might not recognize it as a valid.

                So you could override this value to trick those tools into using
                the generated OpenAPI. Have in mind that this is a hack. But if you
                avoid using features added in OpenAPI 3.1.0, it might work for your
                use case.

- Log messages and metrics for the watch cache are now keyed by `<resource>.<group>` instead of `go` struct type. This means e.g. that `*v1.Pod` becomes `pods`. Additionally, resources that come from `CustomResourceDefinitions` are displayed as the correct resource and group, instead of `*unstructured.Unstructured`. ([#111807](https://github.com/kubern...

* apply falls back to generic 3-way JSON merge patch if no go struct is registered for the target GVK ([#40666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40666), [@ymqytw](https://github.com/ymqytw))

## Changelog since v1.30.1

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

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