* Stop counting soft-deleted pods for scaling purposes in HPA controller to avoid soft-deleted pods incorrectly affecting scale up replica count calculation. ([#67067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67067), [@moonek](https://github.com/moonek))
* delegated authn/z: optionally opt-out of mandatory authn/authz kubeconfig ([#67545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67545), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Balanced resource allocation priority in scheduler to include volume count on node  ([#60525](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60525), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))
* new dhcp-domain parameter to be used for figuring out the hostname of a node ([#61890](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61890), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

    * --application_metrics_count_limit
    * --boot_id_file
    * --container_hints
    * --containerd
    * --docker
    * --docker_env_metadata_whitelist
    * --docker_only
    * --docker-tls
    * --docker-tls-ca

## Changelog since v1.27.5

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Fixed a bug where CEL expressions in CRD validation rules would incorrectly compute a high estimated cost for functions that return strings, lists or maps.

- Exposed CSI volume stats via kubelet volume metrics ([#76188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76188), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))
- Added a new `storage_operation_status_count` metric for kube-controller-manager and kubelet to count success and error statues. ([#75750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75750), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

### Deprecated/changed metrics

#### Cloud Providers

* [alpha] Support is improved for the pluggable, out-of-tree and out-of-core cloud providers. ([#88](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/88), [@wlan0](https://github.com/wlan0))

### Network

#### network-policy

- Fix handing special characters in the volume path on Windows ([#99138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99138), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong)) [SIG Storage]

### Bug or Regression

- Count pod overhead against an entity's ResourceQuota ([#99600](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99600), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

## Changelog since v1.26.8

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Fixed a bug where CEL expressions in CRD validation rules would incorrectly compute a high estimated cost for functions that return strings, lists or maps.

* genericapiserver: cut off pkg/serviceaccount dependency ([#39945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39945), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* genericapiserver: cut off pkg/apis/extensions and pkg/storage dependencies ([#39946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39946), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- This PR adds the following metrics for API Priority and Fairness.
  - **apiserver_flowcontrol_priority_level_seat_count_samples**: histograms of seats occupied by executing requests (both regular and final-delay phases included), broken down by priority_level; the observations are taken once per millisecond.