- Update the system-validators library to v1.8.0 ([#114060](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114060), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- [aws] Fixed a bug which reduces the number of unnecessary calls to STS in the event of assume role failures in the legacy cloud provider ([#110706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110706), [@prateekgogia](https://github.com/prateekgogia)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  stop using `--node-ip`. (In particular, this fixes the problem where people who
  were unnecessarily using `--node-ip` with an external cloud provider in 1.23,
  and then running into problems with 1.24, could not fix the problem by just
  removing the unnecessary `--node-ip` from the kubelet arguments, because

- Fix handling of aws-load-balancer-security-groups annotation. Security-Groups assigned with this annotation are no longer modified by kubernetes which is the expected behaviour of most users. Also no unnecessary Security-Groups are created anymore if this annotation is used. ([#88691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88691), [@Elias481](https://github.com/Elias481)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

					}
					if lock != objectlock.Enabled {
						return sameTarget, errorCodes.ToAPIErrWithErr(ErrReplicationDestinationMissingLock, nil)
					}
				}
			}
		}
		// if checked bucket, then check the ready is unnecessary
		if !opts.CheckRemoteBucket && opts.CheckReady {
			endpoint := clnt.EndpointURL().String()
			if errInt, ok := opts.checkReadyErr.Load(endpoint); !ok {
				err = checkRemoteEndpoint(ctx, clnt.EndpointURL())

        assertThat(throwables!!.size).isEqualTo(1)
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * When a pooled connection fails, don't blame the route. Otherwise pooled connection failures can
   * cause unnecessary SSL fallbacks.
   *
   * https://github.com/square/okhttp/issues/515
   */
  @Test
  fun sslFallbackNotUsedWhenRecycledConnectionFails() {
    server.useHttps(handshakeCertificates.sslSocketFactory())

### Bug or Regression

- Avoid GCE API calls when initializing GCE CloudProvider for Kubelets.
  Avoid unnecessary GCE API calls when adding IP alises or reflecting them in Node object in GCE cloud provider. ([#96864](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96864), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Apps, Cloud Provider and Network]

* UDP connections now support graceful termination in IPVS mode ([#71515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71515), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))
* Fix a potential bug that scheduler preempts unnecessary pods. ([#70898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70898), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- Fixed a bug in the Job controller that could result in creating unnecessary Pods for Jobs already marked as finished (either successful or failed). ([#130333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130333), [@kmala](https://github.com/kmala)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Kubelet: make the image pull time more accurate in event ([#114430](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114430), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Node]
- [aws] Fixed a bug which reduces the number of unnecessary calls to STS in the event of assume role failures in the legacy cloud provider ([#110706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110706), [@prateekgogia](https://github.com/prateekgogia)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

`CSIServiceAccountToken`. This feature allows CSI drivers to impersonate the pods that they mount the volumes for. This improves the security posture in the mounting process where the volumes are ACL’ed on the pods’ service account without handing out unnecessary permissions to the CSI drivers’ service account. This feature is especially important for secret-handling CSI drivers, such as the secrets-store-csi-driver. Since these tokens can be rotated and short-lived, this feature also provides a knob for...