- Fixed garbage collection of dangling VolumeAttachments for PersistentVolumes migrated to CSI on startup of kube-controller-manager. ([#102176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102176), [@timebertt](https://github.com/timebertt)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

- JobTrackingWithFinalizers graduates to beta. Feature is enabled by default. (#105687, @alculquicondor) [SIG Apps and Testing]
- Remove NodeLease feature gate that was graduated and locked to stable in 1.17 release. (#105222, @cyclinder) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]
- TTLAfterFinished is now GA and enabled by default (#105219, @sahilvv) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Testing]

      - [Graduated to Beta](#graduated-to-beta)
    - [New alpha features](#new-alpha-features)
  - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-10)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery-1)
    - [SIG Apps](#sig-apps)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth-1)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling)
    - [SIG Azure](#sig-azure)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli-1)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle-1)

- If someone had the ProbeTerminationGracePeriod alpha feature enabled in 1.21, they should update/delete any workloads/pods with probe terminationGracePeriods < 1 before upgrading ([#103245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103245), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Apps and Node]
- Introducing Memory QoS support with cgroups v2 (Alpha)

- Fixed a 1.25.12 regression where kube-controller-manager can crash when StatefulSet with Parallel policy and PVC labels is scaled up. ([#121187](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121187), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska)) [SIG Apps]

- Non graceful node shutdown handling. ([#108486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108486), [@sonasingh46](https://github.com/sonasingh46)) [SIG Apps, Node and Storage]

- kubectl run now generates apps/v1 deployments by default ([#71006](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71006), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

## Deprecations and Removals

- API

  - The following APIs are no longer served by default:

    - All resources under `apps/v1beta1` and `apps/v1beta2` - use `apps/v1` instead
    - `daemonsets`, `deployments`, `replicasets` resources under `extensions/v1beta1` - use `apps/v1` instead
    - `networkpolicies` resources under `extensions/v1beta1` - use `networking.k8s.io/v1` instead

- Fixed the issue where pod with ordinal number lower than the rolling partitioning number was being deleted it was coming up with updated image. ([#120731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120731), [@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Fixed garbage collection of dangling VolumeAttachments for PersistentVolumes migrated to CSI on startup of kube-controller-manager. ([#102176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102176), [@timebertt](https://github.com/timebertt)) [SIG Apps and Storage]