- Added a new `--init-only` command line flag to `kube-proxy`. Setting the flag makes `kube-proxy` perform its initial configuration that requires privileged mode, and then exit. The `--init-only` mode is intended to be executed in a privileged init container, so that the main container may run with a stricter `securityContext`. ([#120864](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120864), [@uablrek](https://github.com/uablrek)) [SIG Network and Scalability]

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. return container.getComponent("crawlJob").logLevel("info").webConfigIds([{0}] as String[]).fileConfigIds([{1}] as String[]).dataConfigIds([{2}] as String[]).jobExecutor(executor).execute(); */
    String JOB_TEMPLATE_SCRIPT = "job.template.script";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. 0 */
    String JOB_MAX_CRAWLER_PROCESSES = "job.max.crawler.processes";

- Kubeadm will cleanup the stale data on best effort basis. Stale data will be removed when each reset phase are executed, default etcd data directory will be cleanup when the `remove-etcd-member` phase are executed. ([#110972](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110972), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Known issue: fixed that the PreEnqueue plugins aren't executed for Pods proceeding to activeQ through backoffQ. ([#117194](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117194), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Release and Scheduling]

- Replace framework.Failf with ExpectNoError ([#91811](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91811), [@lixiaobing1](https://github.com/lixiaobing1)) [SIG Instrumentation, Storage and Testing]
- Scheduler PreScore plugins are not executed if there is one filtered node or less. ([#89370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89370), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Specifying the KUBE_TEST_REPO environment variable when e2e tests are executed will instruct the test infrastructure to load that image from a location within the specified repo, using a predefined pattern. ([#93510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93510), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))...

A security vulnerability has been discovered in Kubernetes windows nodes
that could allow a user with the ability to query a node's '/logs' endpoint
to execute arbitrary commands on the host.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.29.12
  - kubelet <= v1.30.8
  - kubelet <= v1.31.4
  - kubelet = v1.32.0

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet 1.29.13

Kubeadm: Expose the `kubeadm join` workflow as phases

- The `kubeadm join` command can now be used in phases. Similar to the work that was done for `kubeadm init` in 1.13, in 1.14 the `join` phases can be now executed step-by-step/selectively using the `kubeadm join phase` sub-command. This makes it possible to further customize the workflow of joining nodes to the cluster.
kubernetes/kubeadm: [#1204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/1204)

- For volumes that allow attaches across multiple nodes, attach and detach operations across different nodes are now executed in parallel. ([#89240](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89240), [@verult](https://github.com/verult)) [SIG Apps, Node and Storage]

## Changelog since v1.10.2

### Other notable changes

* Use inline func to ensure unlock is executed ([#61644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61644), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))