* StatefulSets now include an alpha scaling feature accessible by setting the `spec.podManagementPolicy` field to `Parallel`.  The controller will not wait for pods to be ready before adding the other pods, and will replace deleted pods as needed.  Since parallel scaling creates pods out of order, you cannot depend on predictable membership changes within your set. ([#44899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44899), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))...

- In clusters where the DryRun feature...

- Fixed a regression that could incorrectly reject pods with OutOfCpu errors if they were rapidly scheduled after other pods were reported as complete in the API. The Kubelet now waits to report the phase of a pod as terminal in the API until all running containers are guaranteed to have stopped and no new containers can be started.  Short-lived pods may take slightly longer (~1s) to report Succeeded or Failed after this change. ([#108723](https://...

- Fixes a regression introduced in 1.29 where conntrack entries for UDP connections
  to deleted pods did not get cleaned up correctly, which could (among other things)
  cause DNS problems when DNS pods were restarted. ([#127807](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127807), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

NetworkPolicy by setting the DefaultDeny namespace annotation. Note: this will enforce policy for _all_ pods in the namespace: ``` kubectl annotate namespace default "net.beta.kubernetes.io/network-policy={\"ingress\":{\"isolation\":\"DefaultDeny\"}}" ``` With NetworkPolicy enabled, traffic will be limited to just port 9000. For more precise policy, set `networkPolicy.allowExternal=true`. This will only allow pods with the generated client label to connect to MinIO. This label will be displayed in the output...

- Added validation to reject Pods using the `PodLevelResources` feature on Windows OS due to lack of support. The API server rejects Pods with Pod-level resources and a `Pod.spec.os.name` targeting Windows. Kubelet on nodes running Windows also rejects Pods with Pod-level resources at admission phase. ([#133046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133046), [@toVersus](https://github.com/toVersus))...

ernetes.io`, deprecated since v1.19, was partially removed. Kubelets no longer support the annotations, use of the annotations in static pods is no longer supported, and the seccomp annotations are no longer auto-populated when pods with seccomp fields are created. Auto-population of the seccomp fields from the annotations is planned to be removed in 1.27. Pods  should use the corresponding pod or container `securityContext.seccompProfile` field instead. ([#109819](https://github.com/kubernetes/...

* fix kubelet fail to delete orphaned pod directory when the kubelet's pods directory (default is "/var/lib/kubelet/pods") symbolically links to another disk device's directory ([#79094](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79094), [@gaorong](https://github.com/gaorong))

  - Remove redundant log lines and reduce severity around parsing kubeEnv
  - Don't treat nodes created by virtual kubelet as nodes from non-autoscaled node groups
  - Remove redundant logging around calculating node utilization
  - Add configurable `--network` and `--rm` flags for docker in `Makefile`

NetworkPolicy by setting the DefaultDeny namespace annotation. Note: this will enforce policy for _all_ pods in the namespace: ``` kubectl annotate namespace default "net.beta.kubernetes.io/network-policy={\"ingress\":{\"isolation\":\"DefaultDeny\"}}" ``` With NetworkPolicy enabled, traffic will be limited to just port 9000. For more precise policy, set `networkPolicy.allowExternal=true`. This will only allow pods with the generated client label to connect to MinIO. This label will be displayed in the output...