- A new `TaintNodesByCondition` admission plugin taints newly created Node objects as "not ready", to fix a race condition that could cause pods to be scheduled on new nodes before their taints were updated to accurately reflect their reported conditions. This admission plugin is enabled by default if the `TaintNodesByCondition` feature is enabled. ([#73097](https://gi...

- Updated json representation for a conflicted taint to `Key=Effect` when a conflicted taint occurs in kubectl taint. ([#104011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104011), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))
- Upgrades functionality of `kubectl kustomize` as described at

- E2e framework: the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint has been removed from the default value of `--non-blocking-taints` flag. You may need to set `--non-blocking-taints` explicitly if the cluster to be tested has nodes with the deprecated `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint. ([#118510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118510), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Testing]

  //
  // ...where "@JointlyNullable" is similar to @PolyNull but slightly different:
  //
  // - @PolyNull means "@Nullable or @Nonnull"
  //   (That would be unsound for an input Iterable<@Nullable Foo>. So, if we wanted to use
  //   @PolyNull, we would have to restrict this method to non-null <T>. But it has users who pass
  //   iterables with null elements.)
  //
  // - @JointlyNullable means "@Nullable or no annotation"

* Only set sysctls for infra containers ([#32383](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32383), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* fix kubectl taint e2e flake: add retries for removing taint ([#33872](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33872), [@kevin-wangzefeng](https://github.com/kevin-wangzefeng))

  - The taint applied to control-plane nodes "node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule" is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release after a GA deprecation period.
  - Apply toleration for a new, future taint "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule" to the kubeadm CoreDNS / kube-dns managed manifests. Note that this taint is not yet applied to kubeadm control-plane nodes.

 *  Fix: Change `Headers.toString()` to redact authorization and cookie headers.
 *  Fix: Don't do DNS to get the hostname for `RecordedRequest.requestUrl`. This was doing a DNS
    lookup for the local hostname, but we really just wanted the `Host` header.
 *  Fix: Don't crash with a `InaccessibleObjectException` when detecting the platform trust manager
    on Java 17+.
 *  Fix: Don't crash if a cookie's value is a lone double quote character.

    /** The key of the message: Started a bulk process. */
    public static final String SUCCESS_bulk_process_started = "{success.bulk_process_started}";

    /** The key of the message: Printed a thread dump to a log file. */
    public static final String SUCCESS_print_thread_dump = "{success.print_thread_dump}";

    /** The key of the message: Installing plugin {0}. */

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.31.0 - v1.31.11
  - kube-apiserver v1.32.0 - v1.32.7
  - kube-apiserver v1.33.0 - v1.33.3

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.31.12

  - build: Remove kube-cross image building ([#89275](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89275), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release and Testing]
- Detailed scheduler scoring result can be printed at verbose level 10. ([#89384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89384), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]