([#64792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64792), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

#### From a specific node syslog

The CNI plugins are executed by threads in the `kubelet` process.  The CNI plugins logs end up the syslog
under the `kubelet` process. On systems with `journalctl` the following is an example command line
to view the last 1000 `kubelet` logs via the `less` utility to allow for `vi`-style searching:

```console
$ journalctl -t kubelet -n 1000 | less
```

#### GKE via Stackdriver Log Viewer

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.28.0
  - kubelet <= v1.27.4
  - kubelet <= v1.26.7
  - kubelet <= v1.25.12
  - kubelet <= v1.24.16

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.28.1
  - kubelet v1.27.5
  - kubelet v1.26.8
  - kubelet v1.25.13
  - kubelet v1.24.17

This vulnerability was reported by Tomer Peled @tomerpeled92

are installed to “/usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec/” on
every node, instead of being compiled into the Kubernetes binary. See [example](examples/volumes/flexvolume/README.md) for details.
  * vendor volumes into a pod. It expects vendor drivers are installed in the
volume plugin path on each kubelet node. This is an alpha feature and may
change in future.

## Changelog since v1.3.0-beta.2

### Action Required

* [kubelet] Allow opting out of automatic cloud provider detection in kubelet. By default kubelet will auto-detect cloud providers ([#28258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28258), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))

* kubelet `--cert-dir` now defaults to `/var/lib/kubelet/pki`, in order to ensure bootstrapped and rotated certificates persist beyond a reboot. resolves an issue in kubeadm with false-positive `/var/lib/kubelet is not empty` message during pre-flight checks ([#53317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53317), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users may be able to modify container logs.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= 1.27.15
  - kubelet <= 1.28.11
  - kubelet <= 1.29.6
  - kubelet <= 1.30.2 

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet 1.27.16
  - kubelet 1.28.12
  - kubelet 1.29.7
  - kubelet 1.30.3 

This vulnerability was reported by Paulo Gomes @pjbgf from SUSE.

  // Setting this field is optional. It has a maximum size of 32 entries.
  // If null (or empty), it is assumed this allocation will be processed by a
  // single kubelet plugin with no ResourceHandle data attached. The name of
  // the kubelet plugin invoked will match the DriverName set in the
  // ResourceClaimStatus this AllocationResult is embedded in.
  //
  // +listType=atomic
  // +optional
  repeated ResourceHandle resourceHandles = 1;

    *   Extends the gpu_device_plugin e2e_node test to verify that scheduled pods can continue to run even after a device plugin deletion and kubelet restart.
*   The NodeController no longer supports kubelet 1.2. ([#48996](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48996),[ @k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- kubelet: Users can now enable the alpha NodeLease feature gate to have the Kubelet create and periodically renew a Lease in the kube-node-lease namespace. The lease duration defaults to 40s, and can be configured via the kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration's NodeLeaseDurationSeconds field. ([#66257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66257),...