* Return apiserver panics as 500 errors instead terminating the apiserver process. ([#68001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68001), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* fix issue that pull image failed from a cross-subscription Azure Container Registry by SP access ([#66429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66429), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Fix for Nodes in vSphere lacking an InternalIP. ([#48760](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48760)) ([#49202](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49202), [@cbonte](https://github.com/cbonte))

* fix: detach azure disk issue using dangling error ([#81266](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81266), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Fixed API server panic during concurrent GET or LIST requests with non-empty `resourceVersion`. ([#65092](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65092), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Built Kubernetes using Go 1.24.4. ([#132222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132222), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

* Moved pod affinity and anti-affinity from annotations to api fields [#25319](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25319) ([#39478](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39478), [@rrati](https://github.com/rrati))
* Add QoS pod status field ([#37968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37968), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))

- Fix Azurefile volumeid collision issue in csi migration ([#107575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107575), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

verification is always pulled if authentication information from an image pull is not yet present, thus enforcing authentication / re-authentication. This means an image pull might be attempted even in cases where a pod requests the `IfNotPresent` image pull policy, and might lead to the pod not starting if its pull policy is `Never` and is unable to present authentication information that led to a previous successful pull of the image it is requesting. ([#128152](https://github.com/kubernetes/k...

* GCE provider: Create TargetPool with 200 instances, then update with rest ([#27865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27865), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* GCE provider: Limit Filter calls to regexps rather than large blobs ([#27741](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27741), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.22.11 ([#129964](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129964), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]
- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.22.12 ([#130076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130076), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]