* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Kubelets configured to rotate client certificates now publish a `certificate_manager_server_ttl_seconds` gauge metric indicating the remaining seconds until certificate expiration. ([#91148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91148), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Auth and Node]

- `PodLifecycleSleepAction` is now turned on by default allowing users to create containers with sleep lifecycle action with a duration of zero seconds ([#130621](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130621), [@sreeram-venkitesh](https://github.com/sreeram-venkitesh)) [SIG Node]

- DRA: The scheduler plugin prevented abnormal filter runtimes by timing out after 10 seconds. This was configurable via the plugin configuration's `FilterTimeout`. Setting it to zero disabled the timeout and restored the behavior of Kubernetes <= 1.33. ([#132033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132033), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))...

- Added `apiserver_watch_list_duration_seconds` metrics which will measure response latency distribution in seconds for watchlist requests broken by group, version, resource and scope. ([#120490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120490), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

- A new kubelet metric `image_pull_duration_seconds` was added. The metric tracks the duration (in seconds) it takes for an image to be pulled, including the time spent in the waiting queue of image puller. The metric is broken down by bucketed image size. ([#121719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121719), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))...

- Fix: The volume is not detached after the pod and PVC objects are deleted. ([#116138](https://github.com...

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* Cloud Controller Manager now sets Node.Spec.ProviderID ([#50730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50730), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
* Parameterize session affinity timeout seconds in service API for Client IP based session affinity. ([#49850](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49850), [@m1093782566](https://github.com/m1093782566))

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ... 
  This is achieved by reducing the TIME-WAIT state of the connection to 1 second, instead of the defaults 60 seconds. This allows kubelet to free the socket, and free conntrack entry and ephemeral port associated. ([#115143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115143), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Node]