- Fix JobTrackingWithFinalizers that:
  - was declaring a job finished before counting all the created pods in the status
  - was leaving pods with finalizers, blocking pod and job deletions
  

- Fix cgroup handling for systemd with cgroup v2 ([#98365](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98365), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge)) [SIG Node]
- Fix counting error in service/nodeport/loadbalancer quota check ([#97451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97451), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG API Machinery, Network and Testing]

      - `kubelet_imagemanager_ondisk_pulledrecords` for tracking pulled image records on disk
      - `kubelet_imagemanager_image_mustpull_checks_total{result}` for counting image must-pull verification checks. ([#132812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132812), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG Auth and Node]

- The kube-proxy `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total` metric has now reverted back
  to its pre-1.27 behavior of tracking the total number of iptables rules that
  kube-proxy is responsible for, rather than only counting the number of rules
  that it re-synced on the last sync. The new `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_last`

## Changelog since v1.17.16

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fix counting error in service/nodeport/loadbalancer quota check ([#97830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97830), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG API Machinery and Network]

- Fix Azure file share not deleted issue when the namespace is deleted ([#97417](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97417), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix counting error in service/nodeport/loadbalancer quota check ([#97829](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97829), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG API Machinery and Network]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix Job tracking with finalizers for more than 500 pods, ensuring all finalizers are removed before counting the Pod. ([#104876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104876), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]
- Fix: skip case sensitivity when checking Azure NSG rules

*   [beta] API chunking via the limit and continue request parameters is promoted to beta in this release. Client libraries using the Informer or ListWatch types will automatically opt in to chunking. ([#52949](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52949),[ @smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

* Bugfix: master startup script on GCP no longer fails randomly due to concurrent iptables invocations. ([#55945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55945), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))
* Fix bug in mounting volumes with GlusterFS plugin ([#53292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53292), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

    * - Don't generate empty record for externalName service.
    * - Add validation for upstreamNameserver port.
    * - Update go version to 1.9.3.
* Fix mounting of UNIX sockets(and other special files) in subpaths ([#61480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61480), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))