- Graceful node shutdown, allow the actual inhibit delay to be greater than the expected inhibit delay. ([#103137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103137), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming))

- UDP and SCTP protocols can left stale connections that need to be cleared to avoid services disruption, but they can cause problems that are hard to debug.
  Kubernetes components using a loglevel greater or equal than 4 will log the conntrack operations and its output, to show the entries that were deleted. ([#95694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95694), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network]

- The `kubectl debug` is able to create ephemeral containers in pre-1.22 clusters with the `EphemeralContainers` feature enabled. Note that versions of kubectl prior to 1.22 are unable to create ephemeral containers in clusters version 1.22 and greater due to an API change. ([#103292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103292), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

- Fixed a regression since 1.27.0 in scheduler framework when running score plugins. 
  The `skippedScorePlugins` number might be greater than `enabledScorePlugins`, 
  so when initializing a slice the cap(len(skippedScorePlugins) - len(enabledScorePlugins)) is negative, 

FE63          ; mapped                 ; 002D          # 1.1  SMALL HYPHEN-MINUS
FE64          ; disallowed_STD3_mapped ; 003C          # 1.1  SMALL LESS-THAN SIGN
FE65          ; disallowed_STD3_mapped ; 003E          # 1.1  SMALL GREATER-THAN SIGN
FE66          ; disallowed_STD3_mapped ; 003D          # 1.1  SMALL EQUALS SIGN
FE67          ; disallowed                             # NA   <reserved-FE67>

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* Sharing a PID namespace between containers in a pod is disabled by default in version 1.8. To enable for a node, use the `--docker-disable-shared-pid=false` kubelet flag. Be aware that PID namespace sharing requires Docker version greater than or equal to 1.13.1.

* Fix issues related to the eviction manager.

* Fix inconsistent Prometheus cAdvisor metrics.

* Fix issues related to the local storage allocatable feature.

### Auth

### **Storage**

*   [stable] `PersistentVolume` and `PersistentVolumeClaim` objects must now have a capacity greater than zero.
*   [stable] Mutation of `PersistentVolumeSource` after creation is no longer allowed
*   [alpha] Deletion of `PersistentVolumeClaim` objects that are in use by a pod no longer permitted (if alpha feature is enabled).

- Readjust `kubelet_containers_per_pod_count` buckets to only show metrics greater than 1. ([#98169](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98169), [@wawa0210](https://github.com/wawa0210))

- Update kube-apiserver's priority & fairness work estimator such that 'max seats' is MIN(0.15 x nominalCL, nominalCL / handSize)
  
  This fixes a bug where clients with requests using hand size x max seats greater than the nominal concurrency limit can starve other requests in the same priority level. ([#118601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118601), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG API Machinery]