- Kubelet: added `usageNanoCores` from CRI stats provider ([#73659](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73659), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
- Introduced support for Windows nodes into the cluster bringup scripts for GCE. ([#73442](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73442), [@pjh](https://github.com/pjh))

- Updated defaultbackend image to 1.5. Users should concentrate on updating scripts to the new version. ([#69120](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69120), [@aledbf](https://github.com/aledbf))

- Lower and upper case feature flag values are now allowed, but the name still has to match. ([#121441](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121441), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
- Makefile and scripts now respect `GOTOOLCHAIN` and otherwise ensure `./.go-version` is used. ([#120279](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120279), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder))

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* `cluster/kube-up.sh` now provisions a Kubelet config file for GCE via the metadata server. This file is installed by the corresponding GCE init scripts. ([#62183](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62183), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

  for actions against a CRI endpoint. The kubeadm deb/rpm packages will continue to install the `cri-tools`
  package for one more release, but in you must adapt your scripts to install `crictl` manually from
  https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases or a different location.
  
  The `kubeadm` package will stop depending on the `cri-tools` package in Kubernetes 1.32, which means that

- Remove the deprecated flag `--experimental-check-node-capabilities-before-mount`. With CSI now GA, there is a better alternative. Remove any use of  `--experimental-check-node-capabilities-before-mount` from your kubelet scripts or manifests. ([#104732](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104732), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Bump distroless-iptables to 0.2.8 based on Go 1.20.11 ([#121975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121975), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Testing]
- Makefile and scripts now respect GOTOOLCHAIN and otherwise ensure ./.go-version is used ([#122076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122076), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release and Testing]

## Dependencies

  The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all
the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable
work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to
control those activities.  However, it does not include the work's
System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free
programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Bump distroless-iptables to 0.2.8 based on Go 1.20.11 ([#121962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121962), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Testing]
- Makefile and scripts now respect GOTOOLCHAIN and otherwise ensure ./.go-version is used ([#122077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122077), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release and Testing]

## Dependencies