- Introduced new kubelet metrics for the Ensure Secret Pulled Images KEP, including:
      - `kubelet_imagemanager_ondisk_pullintents` for tracking pull intent records on disk
      - `kubelet_imagemanager_ondisk_pulledrecords` for tracking pulled image records on disk

    String APP_CIPHER_KEY = "app.cipher.key";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. sha256 */
    String APP_DIGEST_ALGORISM = "app.digest.algorism";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. .*password|.*key|.*token|.*secret */
    String APP_ENCRYPT_PROPERTY_PATTERN = "app.encrypt.property.pattern";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g.  */
    String APP_EXTENSION_NAMES = "app.extension.names";

### Promoted CRD Validation Expression Language to Beta

### CVE-2023-2728: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

		//     spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration.set("fs.s3a.path.style.access", "true")
		//     spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration.set("fs.s3a.access.key", "minioadmin")
		//     spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration.set("fs.s3a.secret.key", "minioadmin")
		//
		//     val df = spark.read.json("s3a://testbucket/s3.json")
		//
		//     df.write.parquet("s3a://testbucket/parquet/")
		//   }
		// }
		if matches() {

- Existing InTree AzureFile PVs which don't have a secret namespace defined will now work properly after enabling CSI migration - the namespace will be obtained from ClaimRef. ([#108000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108000), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar)) [SIG Cloud Provider...

    /** The key of the message: Access Key */
    public static final String LABELS_storage_access_key = "{labels.storage_access_key}";

    /** The key of the message: Secret Key */
    public static final String LABELS_storage_secret_key = "{labels.storage_secret_key}";

    /** The key of the message: Bucket */
    public static final String LABELS_storage_bucket = "{labels.storage_bucket}";

* kubelet: resolved hang/timeout issues when running large numbers of pods with unique configmap/secret references ([#74755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* federation: Adding support for DeleteOptions.OrphanDependents for federated secrets. Setting it to false while deleting a federated secret also deletes the corresponding secrets from all registered clusters. ([#36296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36296), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))

- Fixed an issue to ignore unnecessary node events and improve daemonset controller performance. ([#121669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121669), [@xigang](https://github.com/xigang))