- The job controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are multiple new failures in a reconciliation cycle, all the failures are taken into account to compute the back-off. Previously, the back-off kicked in for all types of failures; with this change, only pod failures are taken into account. If the back-off limits exceeds, the job is marked as failed immediately; before this change, the...

- Fixed a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently. ([#117249](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117249), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]

* Fix race causing apiserver crashes during etcd healthchecking ([#60069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60069), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Increase allowed lag for ssh key sync loop in tunneler to allow for one failure ([#60068](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60068), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Added a new Priority and Fairness metric `apiserver_flowcontrol_request_dispatch_no_accommodation_total` to track the number of times a request dispatch attempt results in a no-accommodation status due to lack of available seats. ([#106629](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106629), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixed race condition in GCE between containerized mounter setup in the kubelet. ([#112195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112195), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until