- Ephemeral containers graduated to beta and are now available by default. ([#105405](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105405), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

### Feature

- Added KMS `v2alpha1` API. ([#110201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110201), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))

* fix race condition when attach azure disk in vmss ([#71992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71992), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed kubelet reporting "resource name may not be empty" when mounting a volume very quickly after unmount. ([#71074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71074), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

* Adds a metric apiserver_request_error_total to kube-apiserver. This metric tallies the number of request_errors encountered by verb, group, version, resource, subresource, scope, component, and code. ([#84780](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84780), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))

  Docker:         v1.11.2
  Changelog (vs 55-8872-18-0)
    * Cherry-pick runc PR#608: Eliminate redundant parsing of mountinfo
    * Updated kubernetes to v1.4.5
    * Fixed a bug in e2fsprogs that caused mke2fs to take a very long time. Upstream fix: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?h=next&id=d33e690fe7a6cbeb51349d9f2c7fb16a6ebec9c2
```

- Pod spread constraints have been added in alpha. You can use these constraints to control how Pods are spread across the cluster among failure-domains. ([#77327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77327), [#77760](...

  you want to set the equivalent of any of the `--iptables-xxx` options.)
  
  As this code is still very new, it has not been heavily optimized yet;
  while it is expected to _eventually_ have better performance than the
  iptables backend, very little performance testing has been done so far. ([#121046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121046), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

   ([#113629](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113629), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
- 'The iptables kube-proxy backend now process service/endpoint changes
  more efficiently in very large clusters.' ([#110268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110268), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))
- '`CSIMigrationvSphere` was upgraded to GA and locked to true. Do not upgrade to K8s

- Component-base/logs: when compiled with Go >= 1.21, component-base will automatically configure...