- client-go discovery clients...

to by <code>x</code>.
If <code>x</code> is <code>nil</code>, an attempt to evaluate <code>*x</code>
will cause a <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panic</a>.
</p>

<pre>
&amp;x
&amp;a[f(2)]
&amp;Point{2, 3}
*p
*pf(x)

var x *int = nil
*x   // causes a run-time panic
&amp;*x  // causes a run-time panic
</pre>


<h3 id="Receive_operator">Receive operator</h3>

<p>

- Fixed a bug that causes smaller number of conntrack-max being used under CPU static policy. (#99225, @xh4n3) ([#99613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99613), [@xh4n3](https://github.com/xh4n3)) [SIG Network]

* cloudprovider/openstack: fix bug the tries to use octavia client to query flip ([#59075](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59075), [@jrperritt](https://github.com/jrperritt))
* Fixed a bug which caused the apiserver reboot failure in the presence of malfunctioning webhooks. ([#59073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59073), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix deprecated version for pod_scheduling_duration_seconds that caused the metric to be hidden by default in 1.29. ([#123042](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123042), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Instrumentation and Scheduling]

  - [Changelog since v1.23.10](#changelog-since-v12310)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-1)
    - [CVE-2022-3172: Aggregated API server can cause clients to be redirected (SSRF)](#cve-2022-3172-aggregated-api-server-can-cause-clients-to-be-redirected-ssrf)
    - [CVE-2021-25749: <code>runAsNonRoot</code> logic bypass for Windows containers](#cve-2021-25749-runasnonroot-logic-bypass-for-windows-containers)

- Fixed a bug that caused credentials in an exec plugin to override the static certificates set in a kubeconfig. ([#107410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107410), [@margocrawf](https://github.com/margocrawf))

- Fixed an ephemeral port exhaustion bug caused by improper connection management that occurred when a large number of objects were handled by `kubectl` while exec auth was in use. ([#112017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112017), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

* Fixes a bug where if an error was returned that was not an `autorest.DetailedError` we would return `"not found", nil` which caused nodes to go to `NotReady` state. ([#57484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57484), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

* fix parse devicePath issue on Azure Disk ([#74499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74499), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* kubeadm: fixed nil pointer dereference caused by a bug in url parsing ([#74454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74454), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))