- Serve from cache for the whole period of ongoing throttling
  - Fix unwanted VMSS VMs cache invalidation
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating
  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags
  - Add missing stable labels in template nodes

- Fix apiserver startup failure during upgrade when MultiCIDRServiceAllocator is enabled and the cluster has a large number of namespaces. The IP address repair controller now retries on Forbidden errors from admission plugins that are not yet ready. ([#137147](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/137147), [@haojiwu](https://github.com/haojiwu)) [SIG Testing]

- Resolves issue with `/readyz` and `/livez` not including etcd and kms health checks ([#82713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82713), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))
- Fixes regression in logging spurious stack traces when proxied connections are closed by the backend ([#82588](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82588), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  /** The maximum number of segments to allow; used to bound constructor arguments. */
  static final int MAX_SEGMENTS = 1 << 16; // slightly conservative

  /** Number of (unsynchronized) retries in the containsValue method. */
  static final int CONTAINS_VALUE_RETRIES = 3;

  /**
   * Number of cache access operations that can be buffered per segment before the cache's recency

* Only set sysctls for infra containers ([#32383](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32383), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* fix kubectl taint e2e flake: add retries for removing taint ([#33872](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33872), [@kevin-wangzefeng](https://github.com/kevin-wangzefeng))

- Fixed `--retries` functionality for negative values in `kubectl cp` ([#108748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108748), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree))

  /** The maximum number of segments to allow; used to bound constructor arguments. */
  static final int MAX_SEGMENTS = 1 << 16; // slightly conservative

  /** Number of (unsynchronized) retries in the containsValue method. */
  static final int CONTAINS_VALUE_RETRIES = 3;

  /**
   * Number of cache access operations that can be buffered per segment before the cache's recency

            ),
        ] = None,
        lifespan: Annotated[
            Lifespan[AppType] | None,
            Doc(
                """
                A `Lifespan` context manager handler. This replaces `startup` and
                `shutdown` functions with a single context manager.

                Read more in the
                [FastAPI docs for `lifespan`](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/events/).

* [stable] Mount options

  * The ability to specify mount options for volumes is moved from beta to stable.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `PersistentVolume` spec is available to specify mount options. This field replaces an annotation.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `StorageClass` spec allows configuration of mount options for dynamically provisioned volumes.

*   Fixed a bug so that the service controller no longer retries if doNotRetry service update fails. ([#54184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54184),[ @MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))