- Insert a debug container in clusters that don’t have ephemeral containers enabled 
 - Modify a crashing container for easier debugging by changing its image, for example to busybox, or its command, for example, to `sleep 1d` so you have time to `kubectl exec`.
 - Inspect configuration files on a node's host filesystem

* **[alpha]** The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler now supports drawing metrics through the API server aggregator.
* **[alpha]** The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler now supports scaling on multiple, custom metrics.
* Cluster Autoscaler publishes its status to kube-system/cluster-autoscaler-status ConfigMap.
* Cluster Autoscaler can continue operations while some nodes are broken or unready.
* Cluster Autoscaler respects Pod Disruption Budgets when removing a node.

        return getByName(host, type, scope, null);
    }

    /**
     * Determines the address of a host given its host name with a specific server.
     * The additional <code>svr</code> parameter specifies the address to
     * query. This might be the address of a specific host, a name server,
     * or a broadcast address.
     *

group now allows providing the user uid. ([#49677](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49677), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

* After a kubelet rotates its client cert, it now closes its connections to the API server to force a handshake using the new cert. Previously, the kubelet could keep its existing connection open, even if the cert used for that connection was expired and rejected by the API server. ([#49899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49899), [...

     * @param authorityServerName The FQDN of the server that is an authority for the SID.
     * @param auth Credentials suitable for accessing the SID's information.
     */
    /**
     * Resolves this SID to obtain its account and domain names.
     *
     * @param authorityServerName the server to use for SID resolution
     * @param auth the authentication credentials to use
     * @throws IOException if there is an error resolving the SID

			// (because the policy change notification was missed by the current
			// server).
			//
			// The "policy not found" error is ignored because the STS account may
			// not have a policy mapped via its parent (for e.g. in
			// OIDC/AssumeRoleWithCustomToken/AssumeRoleWithCertificate).
			err := iamOS.loadMappedPolicy(ctx, svcParent, stsUser, false, cache.iamSTSPolicyMap)
			if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, errNoSuchPolicy) {

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.31.0 - v1.31.11
  - kube-apiserver v1.32.0 - v1.32.7
  - kube-apiserver v1.33.0 - v1.33.3

**Fixed Versions**:

  - kube-proxy addon starts to use the label `node.kubernetes.io/kube-proxy-ds-ready` instead of `beta.kubernetes.io/kube-proxy-ds-ready` as its node selector.
  - metadata-proxy addon starts to use the label `cloud.google.com/metadata-proxy-ready` instead of `beta.kubernetes.io/metadata-proxy-ready` as its node selector.

#### Storage

* The Kubernetes API server now exits if it encounters a networking failure (e.g. the networking interface hosting its address goes away) to allow a process manager (systemd/kubelet/etc) to react to the problem. Previously the server would log the failure and try again to bind to its configured address:port. ([#42272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42272), [@marun](https://github.com/marun))

### Promoted core CSI Migration to Stable