* Add readyReplicas to replica sets ([#29481](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29481), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))

- The kubelet plugin manager now properly handles plugin registration failures by removing failed plugins from the actual state and retrying with exponential backoff (initial delay 500ms, doubling each failure up to ~2 minutes maximum) to protect against broken plugins causing denial of service while still allowing...

* The implicit registration of Prometheus metrics for workqueue has been removed, and a plug-able interface was added. If you were using workqueue in your own binaries and want these metrics, add the following to your imports in the main package: "k8s.io/pkg/util/workqueue/prometheus"....