* GCE: Fix issue deleting internal load balancers when the firewall resource may not exist. ([#53450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53450), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- Kube-controller-manager: Removed flags  `deleting-pods-qps`, `deleting-pods-burst`, and `register-retry-count`. ([#109612](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109612), [@pandaamanda](https://github.com/pandaamanda))

- Fix detach disk issue on deleting vmss node. ([#104572](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104572), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fixed OpenAPI v3 not being cleaned up after deleting `APIServices`. ([#120108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120108), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn))

- The `controller.kubernetes.io/pod-deletion-cost` annotation can be set to offer a hint on the cost of deleting a `Pod` compared to other pods belonging to the same ReplicaSet. Pods with lower deletion cost are deleted first. This is an alpha feature. ([#99163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99163), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

			}

			// Delete the object and check the results.
			_, _, err = storage.Delete(ctx, tc.create.svc.Name, rest.ValidateAllObjectFunc, &metav1.DeleteOptions{})
			if err != nil {
				t.Fatalf("unexpected error deleting service: %v", err)
			}
			verifyExpectations(t, storage, svcTestCase{ /* all false */ }, lastSvc, nil)
		})
	}
}

// line returns the line number of the caller, if possible.  This is useful in

- Applying fix for not deleting existing public IP when a service is deleted in Azure. ([#100694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100694), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Applying fix for not tagging static public IP. ([#101752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101752), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 
  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121380), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling and Testing]

- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 

		// iptables-restore would create when loading the data.
		createdChains := sets.New[string](findAllMatches(lines, `^:([^ ]*)`)...)
		// Find all of the lines like "-X KUBE-SERVICES ..." indicating chains
		// that we are deleting because they are no longer used, and remove
		// those chains from createdChains.
		createdChains = createdChains.Delete(findAllMatches(lines, `-X ([^ ]*)`)...)