### Bug or Regression

- Fix nil pointer panic in BuildOpenAPIV2 and BuildOpenAPIV3 utilities, used by kube-apiserver's openAPI controller, when a CRD is missing version the requested version. ([#128940](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128940), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixes an issue where the vsphere cloud provider will not trust a certificate if:
  - The issuer of the certificate is unknown (x509.UnknownAuthorityError)
  - The requested name does not match the set of authorized names (x509.HostnameError)

  - `kube-apiserver` publishes `apiserver_requested_deprecated_apis` gauge metrics set to `1` for deprecated APIs which have been requested, with `group`, `version`, `resource`, `subresource`, and `removed_release` labels ([#73032](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73032), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Instrumentation and Testing]

            }

            this.isExists = true;
            return fh;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Determines the appropriate lease state based on the requested access
     *
     * @param access the desired access flags
     * @return the appropriate lease state
     */
    private int determineLeaseState(final int access) {
        // Check if this is a directory

- Kubeadm: add support for dry running `kubeadm join`....

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. 3600 */
    String API_CORS_MAX_AGE = "api.cors.max.age";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. Origin, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization, X-Requested-With */
    String API_CORS_ALLOW_HEADERS = "api.cors.allow.headers";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. true */
    String API_CORS_ALLOW_CREDENTIALS = "api.cors.allow.credentials";

- NodeRestriction admission now validates that the audience value, the kubelet requested a service account token for, is part of the pod spec volume. The kube-apiserver featuregate `ServiceAccountNodeAudienceRestriction` is enabled by default in 1.33. ([#130017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130017), [@aramase](https...

* Free up CPU and memory requested but unused by Metrics Server Pod Nanny. ([#57252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57252), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

- Fixes an issue where the vsphere cloud provider will not trust a certificate if:
  - The issuer of the certificate is unknown (x509.UnknownAuthorityError)
  - The requested name does not match the set of authorized names (x509.HostnameError)

   ([#121954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121954), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))
- The watch cache now waits until it is at least as fresh as the given requestedWatchRV if sendInitialEvents was requested.
   ([#122830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122830), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))