* Fix AWS NLB security group updates where valid security group ports were incorrectly removed ([#68422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68422), [@kellycampbell](https://github.com/kellycampbell))
    * when updating a service or when node changes occur.

* Fix AWS NLB security group updates where valid security group ports were incorrectly removed ([#68422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68422), [@kellycampbell](https://github.com/kellycampbell))
    * when updating a service or when node changes occur.

- Fixed bug that caused cAdvisor to incorrectly detect single-socket multi-NUMA topology. ([#99207](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99207), [@iwankgb](https://github.com/iwankgb)) [SIG Node]

- Kubernetes now correctly handles "search ." in the host's resolv.conf file by preserving the "." entry in the "resolv.conf" that the kubelet writes to pods. ([#109441](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109441), [@Miciah](https://github.com/Miciah)) [SIG Network and Node]

- Kubeadm: fixed a bug where the node registration information for a given node was not fetched correctly during "kubeadm upgrade node" and the node name can end up being incorrect in cases where the node name is not the same as the host name. ([#134362](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134362), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Changelog since v1.26.8

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Fixed a bug where CEL expressions in CRD validation rules would incorrectly compute a high estimated cost for functions that return strings, lists or maps.

com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40848), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

* The behavior of some watch calls to the server when filtering on fields was incorrect. If watching objects with a filter, when an update was made that no longer matched the filter a DELETE event was correctly sent. However, the object that was returned by that delete was not the (correct) version before the update, but instead, the newer version. That meant the new object was not matched by...

- Fixed an issue with garbage collection failing to clean up namespaced children of an object also referenced incorrectly by cluster-scoped children ([#98068](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98068), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

    * inside of which a write lock was intended to prevent races against
    * VM creation, but the usage of the sync.RWMutex type is incorrect,
    * plus is placed in a defer call so the locking is effectively
    * nonexistent.  This patch adds an anonymous function call inside
    * the loop to correctly handle acquiring the write lock with deferred
    * unlock to run at that function's completion, following the normal

- Fixed a bug which the scheduler didn't correctly tell plugins Node deletion.