- 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]

- Kubelet terminates pods correctly upon restart, fixing an issue where pods may have not been fully terminated if the kubelet was restarted during pod termination. ([#117433](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117433), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- 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))

- Kubelet did not report `kubelet_volume_stats_*` metrics for Generic Ephemeral Volumes. ([#105569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105569), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
- Kubelet's Node Grace Shutdown will terminate probes when shutting down ([#105215](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105215), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))

* 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 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), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG...

- 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`. ([#123323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123323), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42))

### Scheduling

- Scheduler should terminate when it loses leader lock. ([#81306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81306), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))

- 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`. ([#123709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123709), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Apps]

* 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))