- Registered metric `apiserver_request_body_size_bytes` to track the size distribution of requests by `resource` and `verb`. ([#120474](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120474),...

- Fix a bug in cronjob controller where already created jobs...

- Add a `serving` and `terminating` condition to the EndpointSlice API.
  `serving` tracks the readiness of endpoints regardless of their terminating state. This is distinct from `ready` since `ready` is only true when pods are not terminating. 

  - `resourceclaim_controller_creates_total` count metric with labels `admin_access` (true or false), `status` (failure or success) to track the total number of `ResourceClaims` creation requests

#### Application Deployment

- The iptables mode of kube-proxy now tracks accepted packets that are destined for node-ports on localhost by introducing `kubeproxy_iptables_localhost_nodeports_accepted_packets_total` metric.

- A new kubelet metric `image_pull_duration_seconds` was added. The metric tracks the duration (in seconds) it takes for an image to be pulled, including the time spent in the waiting queue of image puller. The metric is broken down by bucketed image size. ([#121719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121719), [@rui...

* DaemonSet, Deployment, ReplicaSet, and StatefulSet objects are now persisted in etcd in apps/v1 format ([#58854](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58854), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* YAMLDecoder Read now tracks rest of buffer on io.ErrShortBuffer ([#58817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58817), [@karlhungus](https://github.com/karlhungus))

### Feature

- A new Priority and Fairness metric 'apiserver_flowcontrol_work_estimate_seats_samples' has been added that tracks the estimated seats associated with a request. ([#106628](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106628), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

* Implements rolling update for StatefulSets. Updates can be performed using the RollingUpdate, Paritioned, or OnDelete strategies. OnDelete implements the manual behavior from 1.6. status now tracks  ([#46669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46669), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns))