- Fixed a bug that init containers with `Always` restartPolicy may not terminate gracefully if the pod hasn't initialized yet. ([#126331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126331), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Terminating a restartPolicy=Never pod no longer has a chance to report the pod succeeded when it actually failed. ([#88440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88440), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Fixed a bug that init containers with `Always` restartPolicy may not terminate gracefully if the pod hasn't initialized yet. ([#126332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126332), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

  your DRA Pods could be affected by this bug. ([#125527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125527), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]
- Fixed a bug that init containers with `Always` restartPolicy may not terminate gracefully if the pod hasn't initialized yet. ([#125935](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125935), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

  
  Users who maintain controllers which relied on the fact that pods with RestartPolicy=Always
  never enter the Succeeded phase may need to adapt their controllers. This is because as a consequence of 
  the change pods which use RestartPolicy=Always may end up in the Succeeded phase in two scenarios: pod 

- Fixes a regression in kube-apiserver causing 500 errors from the `/readyz` endpoint ([#93643](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93643), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Terminating a restartPolicy=Never pod no longer has a chance to report the pod succeeded when it actually failed. ([#88440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88440), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Fixed a bug that an init container with containerRestartPolicy with `Always` cannot update its state from terminated to non-terminated for the pod with restartPolicy with `Never` or `OnFailure`. ([#123710](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123710), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Apps]