* Set kernel.softlockup_panic =1 based on the flag. ([#38001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38001), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))
* Configure local-up-cluster.sh to handle auth proxies ([#36838](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36838), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- HostNetwork pods no longer depend on the PodIPs to be assigned to configure the defined hostAliases on the Pod ([#126460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126460), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]

    server.enqueue(
      MockResponse(
        body = "bogus proxy connect response content",
        inTunnel = true,
      ),
    )
    server.enqueue(MockResponse(body = "response"))

    // Configure a single IP address for the host and a single configuration, so we only need one
    // failure to fail permanently.
    client =
      client.newBuilder()
        .sslSocketFactory(

* fix azure disk list corruption issue ([#77187](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77187), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

All StorageClass parameters for volume provisioning and all features supported with PersistentVolumeClaims are supported.

### Skip Volume Ownership change graduates to GA

The feature to configure volume permission and ownership change policy for Pods moved to GA in 1.23.
This allows users to skip recursive permission changes on mount and speeds up the pod start up time.

- The deprecated flag `--lock-object-namespace` and `--lock-object-name` have been removed from kube-scheduler. Please use `--leader-elect-resource-namespace` and `--leader-elect-resource-name` or ComponentConfig instead to configure those parameters. ([#119130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119130), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Scheduling]

* 📝 Update includes in `docs/en/docs/how-to/extending-openapi.md`. PR [#12562](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/12562) by [@philipokiokio](https://github.com/philipokiokio).
* 📝 Update includes for `docs/en/docs/how-to/configure-swagger-ui.md`. PR [#12556](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/12556) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

- Component-base/logs: when compiled with Go >= 1.21, component-base will automatically configure the slog default logger together with initializing klog. ([#120696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120696), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation,...

- Enabled concurrent log rotation in kubelet. You can now configure the maximum number of concurrent rotations with the `containerLogMaxWorkers` setting, and adjust the monitoring interval with `containerLogMonitorInterval`. ([#114301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114301), [@harshanarayana](http...

### Ephemeral Containers Graduate to Stable