- Fixed a scheduler panic due to internal cache inconsistency ([#71063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71063), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
- Report kube-scheduler unhealthy if leader election is deadlocked. ([#71085](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71085), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

* Fixed potential deadlock when deleting CustomResourceDefinition for custom resources with finalizers. ([#60542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60542), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Move config local to controllers in kube-controller-manager ([#72800](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72800), [@stewart-yu](https://github.com/stewart-yu))
* Fix some potential deadlocks and file descriptor leaking for inotify watches. ([#75376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75376), [@cpuguy83](https://github.com/cpuguy83))

- Kubelet: Fixed an internal deadlock that caused the connection to a DRA driver to become unusable after being idle for 30 minutes. ([#133926](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133926), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

## Changelog since v1.6.0

### Other notable changes

* Fix a deadlock in kubeadm master initialization. ([#43835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43835), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

- Kubelet: the connection to a DRA driver became unusable because of an internal deadlock when a connection was idle for 30 minutes. ([#133934](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133934), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Node]

* Fix race condition introduced by graceful termination which can lead to a deadlock in kube-proxy ([#72361](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72361), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

* Set node external IP for azure node when disabling UseInstanceMetadata ([#60959](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60959), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixes potential deadlock when deleting CustomResourceDefinition for custom resources with finalizers ([#60542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60542), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kube-apiserver: Get, GetList and Watch requests that should be served by the apiserver cacher during shutdown will be rejected to avoid a deadlock situation leaving requests hanging. ([#108414](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108414), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

* Fix race condition introduced by graceful termination which can lead to a deadlock in kube-proxy ([#72361](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72361), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))