- Pod termination will be faster when the pod has a missing volume reference. ([#117412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117412), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- API Server tracing can now trace re-entrant api requests. ([#103218](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103218), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

- Trace output in apiserver logs is more organized and comprehensive. Traces are nested, and for all non-long running request endpoints, the entire filter chain is instrumented (e.g. authentication check is included). ([#88936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88936), [@jpbet...

- cloud.google.com/go/speech: v1.15.0
- cloud.google.com/go/storagetransfer: v1.8.0
- cloud.google.com/go/talent: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/texttospeech: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/tpu: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/trace: v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/translate: v1.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/video: v1.15.0
- cloud.google.com/go/videointelligence: v1.10.0
- cloud.google.com/go/vision/v2: v2.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/vmmigration: v1.6.0

- `client-go`, using log level 9, traces the following events of a HTTP request:
      - DNS lookup
      - TCP dialing
      - TLS handshake
      - Time to get a connection from the pool

                      nullable: true
                      type: boolean
                    enableIstioTags:
                      description: Determines whether or not trace spans generated
                        by Envoy will include Istio specific tags.
                      nullable: true
                      type: boolean
                    match:

- Kubectl stack traces now only print at verbose `-v=99` and not `-v=6` ([#108053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108053), [@eddiezane](https://github.com/eddiezane))

* no ([#75820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75820), [@YoubingLi](https://github.com/YoubingLi))
* Use stdlib to log stack trace when a panic occurs ([#75853](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75853), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

- cloud.google.com/go/storagetransfer: v1.8.0
- cloud.google.com/go/talent: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/texttospeech: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/tpu: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/trace: v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/translate: v1.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/video: v1.15.0
- cloud.google.com/go/videointelligence: v1.10.0
- cloud.google.com/go/vision/v2: v2.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/vmmigration: v1.6.0

* 📝 Add External Link: Instrument a FastAPI service adding tracing with OpenTelemetry and send/show traces in Grafana Tempo. PR [#9440](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/9440) by [@softwarebloat](https://github.com/softwarebloat).