- Give terminal phase correctly to all pods that will not be restarted. 

  In particular, assign Failed phase to pods which are deleted while pending. Also, assign a terminal 
  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  
  This fixes the issue for jobs using pod failure policy (with JobPodFailurePolicy and PodDisruptionConditions 

    * - Stop mounting the host certificates into fluentd's prometheus-to-sd container
* Fix a bug where pod address is not removed from endpoints object while pod is in graceful termination. ([#54828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54828), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- Exposed `rest.DefaultServerUrlFor` function. ([#118055](https://gi...

- This release added support for `NodeExpandSecret` for CSI driver client which enables the CSI drivers to make use of this secret while performing node expansion operation based on the user request. Previously there was no secret  provided as part of the `nodeexpansion` call, thus CSI drivers did not make use of the same while expanding the volume at the node side. ([#105963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105963), [@zhucan](https://github.com/zhucan))

- The go version defined in `.go-version` is now fetched when invoking test, build, and code generation targets if the current go version does not match it. Set $FORCE_HOST_GO=y while testing or building to skip this behavior, or set $GO_VERSION to override the selected go version. ([#115498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115498), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Feature

- This PR adds additional validation for endpoint ip configuration while iterating through queried endpoint list. ([#117225](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117225), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]