Update release notes draft to version v1.31.0-alpha.1

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-117842-map.yaml

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+pr: 117842
+releasenote:
+  text: |-  
+    Supported fine-grained supplemental groups policy (KEP-3619), which enabled
+    fine-grained control for supplementary groups in the first container processes.
+    This allows you to choose whether to include groups defined in the container image (/etc/groups)
+    for the container's primary UID or not.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-121508-map.yaml

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+pr: 121508
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    kube-scheduler implemented scheduling hints for the CSILimit plugin.
+    The scheduling hints allow the scheduler to retry scheduling a Pod that was previously rejected by the CSILimit plugin if a deleted pod has a PersistantVolumeClaim (PVC) from the same driver.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-121770-map.yaml

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+pr: 121770
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    This PR added tracing support to the kubelet's read-only endpoint, which currently
+    does not have tracing. It makes use of the `WithPublicEndpoint` option to prevent callers
+    from influencing sampling decisions.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-122471-map.yaml

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+pr: 122471
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    The kube-scheduler added scheduling hints for the InterPodAffinity plugin.
+    These hints allow the scheduler to retry scheduling a Pod
+    that was previously rejected by the InterPodAffinity plugin if there are changes (create, delete, or update) to a related Pod or a node that matches the pod affinity criteria.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-122657-map.yaml

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+pr: 122657
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Added the `WatchList` method to the `rest client` in `client-go`. When used,
+    it establishes a stream to obtain a consistent snapshot of data from the server.
+    This method is meant to be used by the generated client.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-122791-map.yaml

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+pr: 122791
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Removed `ENABLE_CLIENT_GO_WATCH_LIST_ALPHA` environment variable from the reflector.
+    To activate the feature set `KUBE_FEATURE_WatchListClient` environment variable or a corresponding command line option (this works only with binaries that explicitly expose it).
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-123149-map.yaml

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+pr: 123149
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Added `--keep-*` flags to `kubectl debug`, which enables to control the removal
+    of probes, labels, annotations and initContainers from copy pod.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-123233-map.yaml

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+pr: 123233
+releasenote:
+  text: Ensured daemonset controller counts old unhealthy pods towards max unavailable budget.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-123572-map.yaml

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+pr: 123572
+releasenote:
+  text: 'CEL: added name formats library.'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-123638-map.yaml

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+pr: 123638
+releasenote:
+  text: Graduated MatchLabelKeys/MismatchLabelKeys feature in PodAffinity/PodAntiAffinity to Beta.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-123809-map.yaml

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+pr: 123809
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    The emission of RecreatingFailedPod and RecreatingTerminatedPod events has been
+    removed from the StatefulSet lifecycle.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-123822-map.yaml

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+pr: 123822
+releasenote:
+  text: Fixed a missing status prefix in custom resource validation error messages.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-123905-map.yaml

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+pr: 123905
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Services implemented a field selector for the ClusterIP and Type fields.
+    The Kubelet uses this field selector to avoid monitoring Headless Services, which helps reduce memory consumption.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-123919-map.yaml

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+pr: 123919
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Added apiserver.latency.k8s.io/apf-queue-wait annotation to the audit log
+    to record the time spent waiting in APF queue.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124026-map.yaml

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+pr: 124026
+releasenote:
+  text: Built etcd image v3.5.13.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124027-map.yaml

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+pr: 124027
+releasenote:
+  text: 'etcd: Updated to v3.5.13.'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124038-map.yaml

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+pr: 124038
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    'kubeadm: Stopped storing the ResolverConfig in the global KubeletConfiguration
+    and sets it dynamically for each node instead.'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124063-map.yaml

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+pr: 124063
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Fixed a bug where hard evictions due to resource pressure allowed pods
+    to use the full termination grace period instead of shutting down instantly. 
+    This bug also affected force deleted pods. Both cases now receive a termination grace period of 1 second.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124116-map.yaml

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+pr: 124116
+releasenote:
+  text: Fixed a deep copy issue when retrieving the controller reference.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124123-map.yaml

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+pr: 124123
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Enabled kubectl to find `kubectl-create-subcommand` plugins when positional
+    arguments exists, e.g. `kubectl create subcommand arg`.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124147-map.yaml

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+pr: 124147
+releasenote:
+  text: 'Kubemark: added two flags, `--kube-api-qps` which indicates the maximum QPS to the apiserver, and `--kube-api-burst` which indicates maximum burst for throttle to the apiserver.'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124287-map.yaml

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+pr: 124287
+releasenote:
+  text: The scheduler implemented QueueingHint in the TaintToleration plugin, enhancing the throughput of scheduling.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124344-map.yaml

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+pr: 124344
+releasenote:
+  text: Fixed a race condition in the transforming informer that occurred when objects were accessed during the Resync operation.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124352-map.yaml

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+pr: 124352
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Fixed a race condition in kube-controller-manager and the scheduler, caused by
+    a bug in the transforming informer during the Resync operation, 
+    by making the transforming function idempotent.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124373-map.yaml

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+pr: 124373
+releasenote:
+  text: 'kubeadm: removed the deprecated and NO-OP "kubeadm join control-plane-join update-status" phase.'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124374-map.yaml

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+pr: 124374
+releasenote:
+  text: 'kubeadm: removed the EXPERIMENTAL tag from the phase "kubeadm join control-plane-prepare download-certs".'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124393-map.yaml

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+pr: 124393
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    'kubeadm: marked the flag "--experimental-output'' as deprecated (it will
+    be removed in a future release) and added a new flag ''--output" that serves the
+    same purpose. Affected commands are - "kubeadm config images list", "kubeadm token
+    list", "kubeadm upgrade plan", "kubeadm certs check-expiration".'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124419-map.yaml

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+pr: 124419
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    'kubeadm: marked the sub-phase of ''init kubelet-finilize'' called ''experimental-cert-rotation''
+    as deprecated and print a warning if it is used directly; it will be removed in
+    a future release. Add a replacement sub-phase ''enable-client-cert-rotation''.'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124480-map.yaml

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+pr: 124480
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    'kubeadm: fixed a regression where the KubeletConfiguration is not properly
+    downloaded during "kubeadm upgrade" command from the kube-system/kubelet-config
+    ConfigMap, resulting in the local ''/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml'' file being
+    written as a defaulted config.'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124519-map.yaml

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+pr: 124519
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Removed the last remaining in-tree gcp cloud provider and credential provider.
+    Please use the external cloud provider and credential provider from https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-gcp
+    instead.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124553-map.yaml

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+pr: 124553
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Fixed a 1.30.0 regression in OpenAPI descriptions of the `imagePullSecrets` and 
+    `hostAliases` fields to mark the fields used as keys in those lists as either defaulted
+    or required.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124592-map.yaml

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+pr: 124592
+releasenote:
+  text: Added completion for `kubectl set image`.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124665-map.yaml

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+pr: 124665
+releasenote:
+  text: `kubeadm`: Improved the "IsPrivilegedUser" preflight check to not fail on certain Windows setups.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124714-map.yaml

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+pr: 124714
+releasenote:
+  text: Fixed throughput when scheduling DaemonSet pods to reach 300 pods/s, if the configured QPS allows it.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124738-map.yaml

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+pr: 124738
+releasenote:
+  text: Removed GA ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange feature gate.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124767-map.yaml

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+pr: 124767
+releasenote:
+  text: Removed k8s.io/legacy-cloud-providers from staging.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124779-map.yaml

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+pr: 124779
+releasenote:
+  text: Updated the CEL default compatibility environment version to 1.30, ensuring that extended libraries added before version 1.30 are available for use.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124793-map.yaml

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+pr: 124793
+releasenote:
+  text: Fixed the comment for the Job's managedBy field.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124820-map.yaml

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+pr: 124820
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    'kubeadm: enhanced the "patches" functionality to be able to patch coredns
+    deployment. The new patch target is called "corednsdeployment" (e.g. patch file
+    "corednsdeployment+json.json"). This makes it possible to apply custom patches
+    to coredns deployment during "init" and "upgrade".'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124864-map.yaml

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+pr: 124864
+releasenote:
+  text: "Reverted remove legacycloudproviders from staging."
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124883-map.yaml

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+pr: 124883
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    Dropped the additional rule requirement (cronjobs/finalizers) for roles
+    using kubectl create cronjobs to ensure backward compatibility.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124906-map.yaml

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+pr: 124906
+releasenote:
+  text: 'kube-apiserver: fixed a 1.28 regression printing pods with invalid initContainer status.'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-124942-map.yaml

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+pr: 124942
+releasenote:
+  text: The sidecars' finish time will now be accounted for when calculating the job's finish time.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-125040-map.yaml

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+pr: 125040
+releasenote:
+  text: Fixed an issue where kubelet on Windows would fail if a pod had a SecurityContext with `RunAsUser`.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-125067-map.yaml

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+pr: 125067
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    `pause`: Added a `-v` flag to the Windows variant of the pause binary, which
+    prints the version of pause and exits. The Linux pause binary already has this flag.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-125112-map.yaml

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+pr: 125112
+releasenote:
+  text: 'dependencies: started using registry.k8s.io/pause:3.10.'
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-125113-map.yaml

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+pr: 125113
+releasenote:
+  text: Updated CNI Plugins to v1.5.0.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-125157-map.yaml

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+pr: 125157
+releasenote:
+  text: `kubeadm`: The `NodeSwap` check that kubeadm performs during preflight, has a new warning to verify if swap has been configured correctly.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-125235-map.yaml

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+pr: 125235
+releasenote:
+  text: Built etcd image v3.5.14.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-125377-map.yaml

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+pr: 125377
+releasenote:
+  text: Exposed the `apiserver_watch_cache_resource_version` metric to simplify debugging problems with watchcache.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-125396-map.yaml

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+pr: 125396
+releasenote:
+  text: `kubeadm`: Allowed the `kubeadm init phase certs sa` command to accept the `--config` flag.
+pr_body: ""

releases/release-1.31/release-notes/maps/pr-125429-map.yaml

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+pr: 125429
+releasenote:
+  text: |-
+    `Job`: Fixed a bug where `SuccessCriteriaMet` could be added to the Job with
+    `successPolicy` regardless of the `featureGate` being enabled.
+pr_body: ""