- .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.

  // it tries to make the Assigned config the Active config by loading and
  // validating the checkpointed payload identified by Assigned.
  // +optional
  optional NodeConfigSource assigned = 1;

  // Active reports the checkpointed config the node is actively using.
  // Active will represent either the current version of the Assigned config,

* 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`...

* 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))

- 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]

* 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))

### Other notable changes

* 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))
* Disable proxy to loopback and linklocal ([#71980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71980), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))