- Enable the "Retriable and non-retriable pod failures for jobs" feature into beta. ([#113360](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113360), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

- Make the etcd client (used by the API server) retry certain types of errors. The full list of retriable (codes.Unavailable) errors can be found at https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/main/api/v3rpc/rpctypes/error.go#L72 ([#105069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105069), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

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### SIG Multi-cluster (formerly known as SIG Federation)

[SIG Multi-cluster][] is responsible for infrastructure that supports
the efficient and reliable management of multiple Kubernetes clusters,
and applications that run in and across multiple clusters.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Multicluster focussed on expanding the set of