([#121946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121946), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Taints and Tolerations
* Add a manager to NodeController that is responsible for removing Pods from Nodes tainted with NoExecute Taints. This feature is beta (as the rest of taints) and enabled by default. It's gated by controller-manager enable-taint-manager flag. ([#40355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40355), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

* Return apiserver panics as 500 errors instead terminating the apiserver process. ([#68001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68001), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* fix issue that pull image failed from a cross-subscription Azure Container Registry by SP access ([#66429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66429), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Fixes issue where subpath readOnly mounts failed ([#63045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63045), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

- Resolves spurious `Failed to list *v1.Secret` or `Failed to list *v1.ConfigMap` messages in kubelet logs. ([#99538](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99538), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Auth and Node]

- Give terminal phase correctly to all pods that will not be restarted. 

  In particular, assign Failed phase to pods which are deleted while pending. Also, assign a terminal 
  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  

- Failed to provision volume with StorageClass "azurefile-premium": failed to create share andy-mg1121-dynamic-pvc-1a7b2813-d1b7-11e8-9e96-000d3a03e16b in account f7228f99bcde411e8ba4900: failed to create file share, err: storage: service returned error: StatusCode=400, ErrorCode=InvalidHeaderValue, ErrorMessage=The value for one of the HTTP headers...

- kubeadm: Improved `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join` to provide consistent error messages when the kubelet failed or when failed to wait for control plane components. ([#130040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130040), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))

- Fixed a bug where the kubelet ephemerally failed with `failed to initialize top level QOS containers: root container [kubepods] doesn't exist`, due to the cpuset cgroup being deleted on cgroup v2 with systemd cgroup manager.

provisioned PVs, if its volume source is CSI type or it has migrated annotation, when it's deleted, the PersisentVolume controller won't changes its phase to the Failed state. 
  
  With this patch, the external provisioner can remove the finalizer in next reconcile loop. Unfortunately if the provious existing pv has the Failed state, this patch won't take effort. It requires users to remove finalizer. ([#126045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126045), [@carlory](https://...