### Other (Cleanup or Flake)
 - base-images: Use debian-base:v2.1.0 (includes CVE fixes)
  - base-images: Use debian-iptables:v12.1.0 (includes CVE fixes) ([#90863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90863), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

## Dependencies

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- Topology Aware Hints now ignores unready endpoints when assigning hints. ([#106510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106510), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))
- Topology Hints now excludes control plane notes from capacity calculations. ([#104744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104744), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

- Kubeadm: Added missing cluster-info context validation to prevent panics when the user has a malformed kubeconfig in the cluster-info ConfigMap that excludes a valid current context. ([#134715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134715), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

     * Get the value for the key 'suggest.popular.word.excludes'. <br>
     * The value is, e.g.  <br>
     * comment: Excluded words for popular word suggestion.
     * @return The value of found property. (NotNull: if not found, exception but basically no way)
     */
    String getSuggestPopularWordExcludes();

    /**
     * Get the value for the key 'suggest.popular.word.excludes' as {@link Integer}. <br>

* Add a new feature gate for enabling an alpha annotation which, if present, excludes the annotated node from being added to a service load balancers. ([#54644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54644), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

* Add a new feature gate for enabling an alpha annotation which, if present, excludes the annotated node from being added to a service load balancers. ([#54644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54644), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

  - the node label `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` which excludes a node from cloud load balancers (using Service Type=LoadBalancer) is deprecated in favor of `node.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer`. Support for `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` will be removed in v1.18.

- Features:

- Messages of `DisruptionTarget` condition now excludes preemptor pod metadata ([#114914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114914), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

        with:
          # excluded:
          # - notes.md and notes-templates.md - because they are a part of user guide
          # - Kotlin's Module.md - because it's a part of the Kotlin DSL docs
          args: >
            --no-progress --offline '**/*.md' --include-fragments
            --exclude-path 'platforms/documentation/docs/src/docs/release/notes.md'