- .status.terminating field now gets tracked faster when active Pods are deleted, specifically when Job is failed, gets suspended or has too many active pods. ([#125175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125175), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

	The v1beta1 API used an annotation on Namespaces to activate the DefaultDeny policy for an entire Namespace. To activate default deny in the v1 API, you can create a NetworkPolicy that matches all Pods but does not allow any traffic:

    ```yaml
    kind: NetworkPolicy
    apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1

- Introduces new alpha functionality to the reflector, allowing user to enable API streaming.
  
  To activate this feature, users can set the `ENABLE_CLIENT_GO_WATCH_LIST_ALPHA` environmental variable.
  It is important to note that the server must support streaming for this feature to function properly.

* apply: fix detection of non-dry-run enabled servers ([#71854](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71854), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))
* Scheduler only activates unschedulable pods if node's scheduling related properties change. ([#71551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71551), [@mlmhl](https://github.com/mlmhl))

- `kube-proxy` will only install the `DROP` rules for invalid `conntrack`...

- Ensured objects are transformed prior to storage in `SharedInformers` if a transformer is provided and `WatchList` is activated. ([#131799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131799), [@valerian-roche](https://github.com/valerian-roche))

- Kubelet podresources API now provides the information about active pods only. ([#79409](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79409), [@takmatsu](https://github.com/takmatsu)) [SIG Node]

* fix issue: vm sku restriction policy does not work in azure disk attach/detach ([#71941](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71941), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Scheduler only activates unschedulable pods if node's scheduling related properties change. ([#71551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71551), [@mlmhl](https://github.com/mlmhl))

* kubeadm: Create /var/lib/etcd with correct permissions (0700) by default. ([#71885](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71885), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
* Scheduler only activates unschedulable pods if node's scheduling related properties change. ([#71551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71551), [@mlmhl](https://github.com/mlmhl))

for interrupting the StatefulSet Pod management is now ignored. StatefulSets with this annotation set to `true` or with no value will behave just as they did in previous versions. Dormant StatefulSets with the annotation set to `false` will become active after upgrading.

* The CronJob object is now enabled by default at `v1beta1`. CronJob `v2alpha1` is still available, but it must be explicitly enabled. We recommend that you move any current CronJob objects to `batch/v1beta1.CronJob`....