* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fixes an issue with stuck connections handling error responses ([#71419](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71419), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

## Changelog since v1.23.4

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

## Changelog since v1.18.3

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Resolve regression in metadata.managedFields handling in update/patch requests submitted by older API clients ([#92007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92007), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

### Feature

## Changelog since v1.24.13

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Added error handling for seccomp localhost configurations that do not properly set a localhostProfile ([#117020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117020), [@cji](https://github.com/cji)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

   * in which case the signal is a no-op, and the bigger-picture signal is lost unless interrupted
   * threads take special action by participating in the signal-passing game.
   */

  /*
   * Timeout handling is intricate, especially given our ambitious goals:
   * - Avoid underflow and overflow of timeout values when specified timeouts are close to
   *   Long.MIN_VALUE or Long.MAX_VALUE.

* Fix scheduling starvation of pods in cluster with large number of unschedulable pods. ([#71488](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71488), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))
* Fixes an issue with stuck connections handling error responses ([#71419](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71419), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

   * Foo<Enum<?>>} according to JLS. See testRecursiveWildcardSubtypeBug() for a real example.
   *
   * <p>It appears that properly handling recursive type bounds in the presence of implicit type
   * bounds is not easy. For now we punt, hoping that this defect should rarely cause issues in real
   * code.
   *

// string.
//
// See:
// http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingMetadata.html
//
// You should avoid the following characters in a key name because of
// significant special handling for consistency across all
// applications.
//
// Rejects strings with following characters.
//
// - Backslash ("\")
//
// additionally minio does not support object names with trailing SlashSeparator.

- Fixes calculating the requeue time in the cronjob controller, which results in properly handling failed/stuck jobs ([#121327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121327), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps]

   * a checked exception. This makes {@code Future} more suitable for lightweight, fast-running
   * tasks that, barring bugs in the code, will not fail. This gives it exception-handling behavior
   * similar to that of {@code ForkJoinTask.join}.
   *
   * <p>Exceptions from {@code Future.get} are treated as follows:
   *
   * <ul>