* Default value for expendable pod priority cutoff in GCP deployment of Cluster Autoscaler changed from 0 to -10.
    * action required: users deploying workloads with priority lower than 0 may want to use priority lower than -10 to avoid triggering scale-up.

### Other notable changes

* Metadata Agent Improvements ([#66485](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66485), [@bmoyles0117](https://github.com/bmoyles0117))

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))
* Services of type=LoadBalancer which have no endpoints will now immediately ICMP reject connections, rather than time out. ([#74394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74394), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- In the event that more than one IngressClass is designated "default", the DefaultIngressClass admission controller will choose one rather than fail. ([#110974](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110974), [@kidddddddddddddddddddddd](https://github.com/kidddddddddddddddddddddd)) [SIG Network]

- Fixes a problem with 63-second or 1-second connection delays with some VXLAN-based
  network plugins which was first widely noticed in 1.16 (though some users saw it
  earlier than that, possibly only with specific network plugins). If you were previously
  using ethtool to disable checksum offload on your primary network interface, you should

* Actually fix local-cluster-up on 1.5 branch ([#40501](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40501), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))
* Prevent hotloops on error conditions, which could fill up the disk faster than log rotation can free space. ([#40497](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40497), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))

  the correct number of rules, rather than being off by one.
  
  Fixed multiple iptables proxy regressions introduced in 1.22:
  
    - When using Services with SessionAffinity, client affinity for an
      endpoint now gets broken when that endpoint becomes non-ready
      (rather than continuing until the endpoint is fully deleted).
  

- Support more than 100 disk mounts on Windows (#105673, @andyzhangx) [SIG Storage and Windows]
- The --leader-elect* CLI args are now honored correctly in scheduler. (#106130, @Huang-Wei) [SIG Scheduling]
- The kube-proxy sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total metric now gives
  the correct number of rules, rather than being off by one.
  

has now graduated to Beta.
This allows the kubelet to dynamically retrieve credentials for a container image registry
using exec plugins, rather than storing credentials on the node's filesystem.

### Contextual Logging in Alpha

Kubernetes 1.24 has introduced [contextual logging](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/3077)

- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106124, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]
- Support more than 100 disk mounts on Windows (#105673, @andyzhangx) [SIG Storage and Windows]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- k8s.io/kube-openapi: d219536 → 83f114c

### Removed

- Fix azure disk attach failure for disk size bigger than 4TB ([#95463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95463), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]