- Fixes regression in 1.27.2 causing running pods with devices to be terminated if kubelet is restarted ([#119432](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119432), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120020), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixes a bug where images pinned by the container runtime can be garbage collected by kubelet. ([#120053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120053), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG Node]
- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120155), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixes regression in 1.26.5 causing running pods with devices to be terminated if kubelet is restarted ([#119706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119706), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120019), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]

- `kubeadm`: turned on feature gate `MergeCLIArgumentsWithConfig` to merge the config from flag and config file, otherwise, if the flag `--ignore-preflight-errors` is set from the CLI, then the value from config file will be ignored. ([#119946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119946), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))