- ACTION_REQUIRED
  When an Indexed Job has a number of completions higher than 10^5 and parallelism higher than 10^4, and a big number of Indexes fail, Kubernetes might not be able to track the termination of the Job. Kubernetes now emits a warning, at Job creation, when the Job manifest exceeds both of these limits. ([#118420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118420), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

  in `v1.29+` versions of the baseline and restricted policies. ([#118846](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118846), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))
- `kubelet` now emits a metric for end-to-end pod startup latency, including image pull. ([#121041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121041), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))

- The `e2e.test` binary no longer emits JSON structs to document progress. ([#113212](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113212), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))