* Fixes a goroutine leak in kube-apiserver when a request times out. ([#83333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83333), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))
* Fix aggressive VM calls for Azure VMSS ([#83102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83102), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Fixes a goroutine leak in kube-apiserver when a request times out. ([#83333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83333), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))
* Fix aggressive VM calls for Azure VMSS ([#83102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83102), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112401), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG API Machinery]

  request optionally sent by the CSI Client from this release onwards. ([#121303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121303), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))
- `NodeStageVolume` calls will now be retried if the CSI node driver is not running. ([#120330](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120330), [@rohitssingh](https://github.com/rohitssingh))

     * @throws ExecutionError if the loading thread throws an error
     */
    V waitForValue() throws ExecutionException;

    /** Returns the weight of this entry. This is assumed to be static between calls to setValue. */
    int getWeight();

    /**
     * Returns the entry associated with this value reference, or {@code null} if this value
     * reference is independent of any entry.
     */

### Other notable changes

* GCE provider: Limit Filter calls to regexps rather than large blobs ([#27741](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27741), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))

     */
    @Nullable V get();

    /** Returns the entry which contains this {@link WeakValueReference}. */
    E getEntry();

    /** Unsets the referenced value. Subsequent calls to {@link #get} will return {@code null}. */
    void clear();

    /**
     * Returns a freshly created {@link WeakValueReference} for the given {@code entry} (and on the

- Fixed two regressions introduced by the PodDisruptionConditions feature (on by default in 1.26):
  - pod eviction API calls returned spurious precondition errors and required a second evict API call to succeed

e/ControllerUnpublishVolume, and NodePublishVolume/NodeUnpublishVolume operations. Before this change all API calls had to fetch key/value stored in secret and use it to authenticate/authorize these operations. With this change API calls receive key/value as a input parameter so they not need to know where and how credentials were stored and fetched. Main goal was to make these API calls CO (Container Orchestrator) agnostic.  ([#60118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60118), [@sbez...

- K8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime: Added support for new calls to handle panics and errors in the context where they occur. `PanicHandlers` and `ErrorHandlers` now must accept a context parameter for that. Log output is structured instead of unstructured. ([#121970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121970),...