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 

  Additionally, if you enable the `JobSuccessPolicy` feature gate, the Job gets "CompletionsReached" reason for the "SuccessCriteriaMet" and "Complete" condition type
  when the number of succeeded Job Pods (`.status.succeeded`) reached the desired completions (`.spec.completions`). ([#126067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126067), [@tenzen-y](https://github.com/tenzen-y)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Testing]

- Fixed kubelet creating extra sandbox for pods with RestartPolicyOnFailure after all containers succeeded ([#92614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92614), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Setting a mirror pod's phase to Succeeded or Failed can prevent the corresponding static pod from restarting due mutation of a Kubelet cache. ([#116482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116482), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]

- Fixed kubelet creating extra sandbox for pods with RestartPolicyOnFailure after all containers succeeded ([#92614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92614), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Support for Indexed Job: a Job that is considered completed when Pods associated to indexes from 0 to (.spec.completions-1) have succeeded. ([#98812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98812), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps and CLI]
- The BoundServiceAccountTokenVolume feature has been promoted to beta, and enabled by default.

- Fixed kubelet creating extra sandbox for pods with RestartPolicyOnFailure after all containers succeeded ([#92614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92614), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Recreate DaemonSet pods completed with Succeeded phase ([#117496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117496), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- The pod phase lifecycle guarantees that terminal Pods, those whose states are Unready or Succeeded, can not regress and will have all container stopped. Hence, terminal Pods will never be reachable and should not publish their IP addresses on the Endpoints or EndpointSlices, independently of the Service TolerateUnready option. ([#110259](http...

- The pod phase lifecycle guarantees that terminal Pods, those whose states are Unready or Succeeded, can not regress and will have all container stopped. Hence, terminal Pods will never be reachable and should not publish their IP addresses on the Endpoints or EndpointSlices, independently of the Service TolerateUnready option. ([#110260](http...