- Fix: After a Node is down and take some time to get back to up again, the mount point of the evicted Pods cannot be cleaned up successfully. (#111933) Meanwhile Kubelet will print the log `Orphaned pod "xxx" found, but error not a directory occurred when trying to remove the volumes dir` every 2 seconds. (#105536) ([#116134](https://github.com/k...

* Fix panic when using `kubeadm init` with vsphere cloud-provider. ([#44661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44661), [@xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))
* kubectl: Fix bug that showed terminated/evicted pods even without `--show-all`. ([#48786](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48786), [@janetkuo](https://github.com/janetkuo))

- The PodDisruptionBudget `spec.unhealthyPodEvictionPolicy` field has graduated to GA. This field may be set to `AlwaysAllow` to always allow unhealthy pods covered by the PodDisruptionBudget to be evicted. ([#123428](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123428), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Node and Testing]

* Never prevent deletion of resources as part of namespace lifecycle ([#48733](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48733), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kubectl: Fix bug that showed terminated/evicted pods even without `--show-all`. ([#48786](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48786), [@janetkuo](https://github.com/janetkuo))

- `Kubectl drain node --dry-run` will list pods that would be evicted or deleted ([#82660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82660), [@sallyom](https://github.com/sallyom)) [SIG CLI]

  - pod eviction API calls returned spurious precondition errors and required a second evict API call to succeed
  - dry-run eviction API calls persisted a DisruptionTarget condition into the pod being evicted ([#116750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116750), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]
- Fixes a regression in the pod binding subresource to honor the `metadata.uid` precondition.

  // +optional
  optional string message = 3;

  // A brief CamelCase message indicating details about why the pod is in this state.
  // e.g. 'Evicted'
  // +optional
  optional string reason = 4;

  // nominatedNodeName is set only when this pod preempts other pods on the node, but it cannot be

- Ensure `InstanceShutdownByProviderID` return false for creating Azure VMs. ([#104382](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104382), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
- Evicted and other terminated Pods will no longer revert to the `Running` phase. ([#105462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105462), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

## Known Issues
- volumeDevices mapping ignored when container is privileged

- Fix: After a Node is down and take some time to get back to up again, the mount point of the evicted Pods cannot be cleaned up successfully. (#111933) Meanwhile Kubelet will print the log `Orphaned pod "xxx" found, but error not a directory occurred when trying to remove the volumes dir` every 2 seconds. (#105536) ([#116134](https://github.com/k...