- Kubelet podresources API now provides the information about active pods only. ([#79409](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79409), [@takmatsu](https://github.com/takmatsu)) [SIG Node]

- .status.terminating field now gets tracked faster when active Pods are deleted, specifically when Job is failed, gets suspended or has too many active pods. ([#125175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125175), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

## Changelog since v1.12.8

### Other notable changes

* Active watches of custom resources now terminate properly if the CRD is modified. ([#78029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78029), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
* Active watches of custom resources now terminate properly if the CRD is modified. ([#78029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78029), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix incorrect conflict errors applying strategic merge patches to resources. ([#43871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43871), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix init container status reporting when active deadline is exceeded. ([#46305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46305), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))

- The new `dra_resource_claims_in_use` kubelet metrics reported active `ResourceClaims`, overall and by driver. ([#131641](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131641), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Architecture, Instrumentation, Node and Testing]

for interrupting the StatefulSet Pod management is now ignored. StatefulSets with this annotation set to `true` or with no value will behave just as they did in previous versions. Dormant StatefulSets with the annotation set to `false` will become active after upgrading.

* The CronJob object is now enabled by default at `v1beta1`. CronJob `v2alpha1` is still available, but it must be explicitly enabled. We recommend that you move any current CronJob objects to `batch/v1beta1.CronJob`....

- Fixed an issue related to not draining all the pods in a namespace when an empty selector, i.e., "{}," is specified in a Pod Disruption...

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

* kubelet: fix fail to close kubelet->API connections on heartbeat failure when bootstrapping or client certificate rotation is disabled ([#78016](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78016), [@gaorong](https://github.com/gaorong))
* Active watches of custom resources now terminate properly if the CRD is modified. ([#78029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78029), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))