* Fix panic create/update CRD when mutating/validating webhook configured. ([#61404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61404), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))
* Add support to ingest log entries to Stackdriver against new "k8s_container" and "k8s_node" resources. ([#62076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62076), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))

* StatefulSet will now fill the `hostname` and `subdomain` fields if they're empty on existing Pods it owns. This allows it to self-correct the issue where StatefulSet Pod DNS entries disappear after upgrading to v1.7.x ([#48327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48327)). ([#51199](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51199), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns))

* Fixes segmentation fault issue with Protobuf library when log entries are deeply nested. ([#77224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77224), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))

* Check if container memory stats are available before accessing it ([#77656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77656), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))
* Fixes segmentation fault issue with Protobuf library when log entries are deeply nested. ([#77224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77224), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))

## Changelog since v1.25.6

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ...