- Introduced `v1alpha1`...

* Pod priority and preemption is now enabled by default. Even if you don't plan to use this feature, you might need to take some action immediately after upgrading. In multi-tenant clusters where not all users are trusted, you are advised to create appropriate quotas for...

* Fix bug that caused `kubectl` commands to sometimes fail to refresh access token when running against GKE clusters. ([#66314](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66314), [@jlowdermilk](https://github.com/jlowdermilk))
* Use KubeDNS by default in GCE setups, as CoreDNS has significantly higher memory usage in large clusters. ([#68629](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68629), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

* kubeadm: explicitly wait for `etcd` to have grown when joining a new control plane ([#72984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72984), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))
* Improve efficiency of preemption logic in clusters with many pending pods. ([#72895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72895), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- kube-apiserver:

- In "large" clusters, kube-proxy in iptables mode will now sometimes
  leave unused rules in iptables for a while (up to `--iptables-sync-period`)
  before deleting them. This improves performance by not requiring it to
  check for stale rules on every sync. (In smaller clusters, it will still
  remove unused rules immediately once they are no longer used.)

- Fixed node data lost in kube-scheduler for clusters with imbalance on number of nodes across zones ([#93355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93355), [@maelk](https://github.com/maelk))
- Fixed several bugs involving the IPFamily field when creating or updating services
  in clusters with the IPv6DualStack feature gate enabled.
  

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-5321: Incorrect permissions on Windows containers logs

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes clusters with Windows nodes
where BUILTIN\Users may be able to read container logs and NT
AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users may be able to modify container logs.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= 1.27.15

    * DualStack:
    * => IPv4 BackendPool name == clusterName
    * => IPv6 BackendPool name == <clusterName>-IPv6
    * This result into:
    * - clusters moving from IPv4 to duakstack will require no changes
    * - clusters moving from IPv6 (while not seen in the wild, we can not rule out their existence) to dualstack will require deleting backend pools (the reconciler will take care of creating correct backendpools)

- Fixed in-tree to CSI migration for Portworx volumes, in clusters where Portworx security feature is enabled (it's a Portworx feature, not Kubernetes feature). It required secret data from the secret mentioned in-tree SC, to be passed in CSI requests which was not happening before this fix. ([#129630](https://...