feature gates enabled) that their pods could get stuck in the pending phase when deleted.
  
  Users who maintain controllers which relied on the fact that pods with RestartPolicy=Always
  never enter the Succeeded phase may need to adapt their controllers. This is because as a consequence of 
  the change pods which use RestartPolicy=Always may end up in the Succeeded phase in two scenarios: pod 

* Advanced audit allows logging failed login attempts ([#51119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51119), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* kubeadm: Add support for using an external CA whose key is never stored in the cluster ([#50832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50832), [@nckturner](https://github.com/nckturner))

- Fixed a bug that an init container with containerRestartPolicy with `Always` cannot update its state from terminated to non-terminated for the pod with restartPolicy with `Never` or `OnFailure`. ([#123710](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123710), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Apps]

- The pod phase lifecycle guarantees that terminal Pods, those whose states are `Unready` or `Succeeded`, can not regress and will have all container stopped. Hence, terminal Pods will never be reachable and should not publish their IP addresses on the `Endpoints` or `EndpointSlices`, independently of the Service `TolerateUnready` option. ([#110255](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110255), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))...

- The pod phase lifecycle guarantees that terminal Pods, those whose states are Unready or Succeeded, can not regress and will have all container stopped. Hence, terminal Pods will never be reachable and should not publish their IP addresses on the Endpoints or EndpointSlices, independently of the Service TolerateUnready option. ([#110258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110258), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))...

    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_demand_seats_high_watermark`: High watermark, over last adjustment period, of demand_seats
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_demand_seats_average`: Time-weighted average, over last adjustment period, of demand_seats
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_demand_seats_stdev`: Time-weighted standard deviation, over last adjustment period, of demand_seats

- Fixed a bug that an init container with containerRestartPolicy with `Always` cannot update its state from terminated to non-terminated for the pod with restartPolicy with `Never` or `OnFailure`. ([#123709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123709), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Apps]