* **[beta]** Node Problem Detector is beta (v0.3.0) now. New
  features added into node-problem-detector:v0.3.0:
  - Add support for journald.
  - The ability to monitor any system daemon logs. Previously only kernel
    logs were supported.
  - The ability to be deployed and run as a native daemon.
* **[alpha]** Critical Pods: When feature gate "ExperimentalCriticalPodAnnotation" is

- Kube-apiserver: removed `apf_fd` from server logs which could contain data identifying the requesting user ([#108631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108631), [@jupblb](https://github.com/jupblb))

- Kube-proxy: on dual-stack mode, if it is not able to get the IP Family of an endpoint, logs it with level InfoV(4) instead of Warning, avoiding flooding the logs for endpoints without addresses ([#88934](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88934), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network]

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-9042: Command Injection affecting Windows nodes via nodes/*/logs/query API

A security vulnerability has been discovered in Kubernetes windows nodes
that could allow a user with the ability to query a node's '/logs' endpoint
to execute arbitrary commands on the host.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.29.12
  - kubelet <= v1.30.8

        }
    }

    /**
     * Waits for a crawler thread to complete execution.
     * This method handles interruptions gracefully and logs when a crawler process is interrupted.
     *
     * @param crawlerThread the thread to wait for; null threads are ignored
     */
    private void joinCrawlerThread(final Thread crawlerThread) {

* Create a new Deployment in kube-system for every version. ([#23512](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23512), [@Q-Lee](https://github.com/Q-Lee))
* Use SCP to dump logs and parallelize a bit. ([#22835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22835), [@spxtr](https://github.com/spxtr))

### CVE-2024-5321: Incorrect permissions on Windows containers logs

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes clusters with Windows nodes
where BUILTIN\Users may be able to read container logs and NT
AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users may be able to modify container logs.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= 1.27.15
  - kubelet <= 1.28.11
  - kubelet <= 1.29.6

s/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/audit/) is now enabled behind a featureGate in kubeadm. A user can supply their own audit policy with configuration option as well as a place for the audit logs to live. If no policy is supplied a default policy will be provided. The default policy will log all Metadata level policy logs. It is the example provided in the documentation. ([#59067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59067), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))

* Reduce Metrics...

* Upgrade Stackdriver Logging Agent addon image to 0.6-1.6.0-1 to use Fluentd v1.2. This provides nanoseconds timestamp granularity for logs. ([#70954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70954), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))
* [GCE] Filter out spammy audit logs from cluster autoscaler. ([#70696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70696), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

* fix azure disk naming matching issue due to case sensitive comparison ([#81720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81720), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix `kubectl logs -f` for windows server containers. ([#81747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81747), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))