- Changed Job controller to use the controller UID index for Pod lookups to improve performance. ([#132305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132305), [@xigang](https://github.com/xigang))

- Kubeadm: during execution of the "check expiration" command, treat the etcd CA as external if there is a missing etcd CA key file (etcd/ca.key) and perform the proper validation on certificates signed by the etcd CA. Additionally, make sure that the CA for all entries in the output table is included - for both certificates...

		di, err = disk.GetInfo(drivePath, false)

		if !globalIsCICD && !globalIsErasureSD {
			if globalRootDiskThreshold > 0 {
				// Use MINIO_ROOTDISK_THRESHOLD_SIZE to figure out if
				// this disk is a root disk. treat those disks with
				// size less than or equal to the threshold as rootDrives.
				rootDrive = di.Total <= globalRootDiskThreshold
			} else {
				rootDrive, err = disk.IsRootDisk(drivePath, SlashSeparator)
			}
		}

- Resolves an issue that causes winkernel proxier to treat stale VIPs as valid ([#113567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113567), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- Kube-proxy: add `--bind-address-hard-fail` flag to treat failure to bind to a port as fatal ([#89350](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89350), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Network]

	c.Assert(true, bytes.Equal(buffer2.Bytes(), []byte("hello world")))

	// Test the response when object name ends with a slash.
	// This is a special case with size as '0' and object ends with
	// a slash separator, we treat it like a valid operation and
	// return success.
	// The response Etag headers should contain Md5Sum of empty string.
	objectName = "objectwith/"
	// create HTTP request for object upload.

- **UI**
  - [stable] Kubernetes Dashboard UI - a great looking Kubernetes Dashboard UI with 90% CLI parity for at-a-glance management. [docs](https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard)

- Resolves an issue that causes winkernel proxier to treat stale VIPs as valid ([#113558](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113558), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- Kubeadm: during execution of the "check expiration" command, treat the etcd CA as external if there is a missing etcd CA key file (etcd/ca.key) and perform the proper validation on certificates signed by the etcd CA. Additionally, make sure that the CA for all entries in the output table is included - for both certificates...

- kubeadm: fix a potential panic if kubeadm discovers an invalid, existing kubeconfig file ([#79165](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79165), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
- kubeadm: treat non-fatal errors as warnings when doing reset ([#80862](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80862), [@drpaneas](https://github.com/drpaneas))