- Fix the regression with the slow pods termination. Before this fix pods may take an additional time to terminate - up to one minute. Reversing the change that ensured that CNI resources cleaned up when the pod is removed on API server. ([#97980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97980),...

- E2E storage tests: setting test tags like `[Slow]` via the `DriverInfo.FeatureTag` field is no longer supported. ([#121391](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121391), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

- Fix the regression with the slow pods termination. Before this fix pods may take an additional time to terminate - up to one minute. Reversing the change that ensured that CNI resources cleaned up when the pod is removed on API server. ([#97980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97980),...

- TLS timeouts have been extended to work around slow arm64 math/big functions. ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))

- Don't prematurely close reflectors in case of slow initialization in watch based manager to fix issues with inability to properly mount secrets/configmaps. ([#104604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104604), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

may occasionally increase the size of the cluster a bit more than it is actually needed, when there are
unschedulable pods, scale up is required and cloud provider is slow to set up networking for new nodes.
Anyway, the cluster should get back to the proper size after 10 min.

### Deployment

- Kubelet is no longer able to recover from device manager state file older than 1.20. If the proper recommended upgrade flow is followed, there should be no issue. ([#123398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123398), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]

  For more information, see [#56357](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/56357).

*   Audit logging is slow because writes to the log are performed synchronously with requests to the log. This issue will be fixed in a future release.

  For more information, see [#53006](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53006).

### Other notable changes

* Extend TLS timeouts to work around slow arm64 math/big ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))

* fix smb mount issue ([#65751](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65751), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Extend TLS timeouts to work around slow arm64 math/big ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))