### Bug or Regression

- Fix an ephemeral port exhaustion bug caused by improper connection management that occurred when a large number of objects were handled by kubectl while exec auth was in use. ([#112337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112337), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

## Urgent Upgrade Notes 

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

import (
	"bytes"
	"debug/dwarf"
	"debug/elf"
	"debug/macho"
	"debug/pe"
	"encoding/binary"
	"errors"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"go/ast"
	"go/parser"
	"go/token"
	"internal/xcoff"
	"math"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"slices"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
	"unicode"
	"unicode/utf8"

	"cmd/internal/quoted"
)

var debugDefine = flag.Bool("debug-define", false, "print relevant #defines")

- Changed the error message to `cannot exec into multiple objects at a time` when file passed to `kubectl exec` contains multiple resources ([#114249](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114249), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58973), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

* The default Flexvolume plugin directory for COS images on GCE has changed to `/home/kubernetes/flexvolume`, rather than `/etc/srv/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec`. Existing Flexvolume installations in clusters using COS images must be moved to the new directory, and installation processes must be updated with the new path. ([#58171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58171), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))...

* The priorityClass feature is now considered beta. ([#63724](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63724), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))
* client-go: credential exec plugins is now considered beta. ([#64482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64482), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- The `--pod` flag (`-p` shorthand) of the kubectl exec command has been marked as deprecated, and will be removed in a future version. This flag is currently optional. ([#66558](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66558), [@quasoft](https://github.com/quasoft))

  You can still access kubelet's `/healthz`, `/pods` and `/configz` by granting the caller `nodes/proxy` permission in RBAC but that also grants the caller permissions to exec, run and attach to containers on the nodes and doing so does not follow the least privilege principle. Granting callers more permissions than they need can give attackers an opportunity to escalate privileges. ([#126347](https://github.com/kuberne...

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- Fix an ephemeral port exhaustion bug caused by improper connection management that occurred when a large number of objects were handled by kubectl while exec auth was in use. ([#112336](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112336), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]