- Fixed a startup probe race condition that caused main containers to remain stuck in "Initializing" state when sidecar containers with startup probes failed initially but succeeded on restart in pods with restartPolicy=Never. ([#134800](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134800), [@yuanwang04](https://github.com/yuanwang04)) [SIG...

- Component-base/logs: when compiled with Go >= 1.21, component-base will automatically configure the slog default logger together with initializing klog. ([#120696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120696), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Network, Storage and Testing]

- Updated the sample-apiserver manifest example to include correct RBAC configurations. ([#123479](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123479), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))

* Fix cloud-controller-manager crash when using AWS provider and PersistentVolume initializing controller  ([#70432](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70432), [@mvladev](https://github.com/mvladev))

* Fix cloud-controller-manager crash when using OpenStack provider and PersistentVolume initializing controller   ([#70459](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70459), [@mvladev](https://github.com/mvladev))

- Fixed a regression since 1.27.0 in scheduler framework when running score plugins. 
  The `skippedScorePlugins` number might be greater than `enabledScorePlugins`, 
  so when initializing a slice the cap(len(skippedScorePlugins) - len(enabledScorePlugins)) is negative, 
  which is not allowed. ([#121667](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121667), [@kerthcet](https://github.com/kerthcet)) [SIG Scheduling]