- 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.
  
  This fixes the issue for jobs using pod failure policy (with JobPodFailurePolicy and PodDisruptionConditions 

- Fixes an issue that can result in namespaced custom resources being orphaned when their namespace is deleted, if the CRD defining the custom resource is removed concurrently with namespaces being deleted, then recreated. ([#93790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93790), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

### Garbage Collector

- `kube-proxy` will...

  Scheduling hints allow the scheduler to retry scheduling Pods that were previously rejected by the VolumeRestriction plugin if the Pod is deleted and the deleted Pod conflicts with the existing volumes of the current Pod. ([#125279](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125279), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]
- Kube-scheduler implements scheduling hints for the VolumeRestriction plugin.

## Changelog since v1.18.14

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- 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]

- For vSphere Cloud Provider, If VM of worker node is deleted, the node will also be deleted by node controller ([#92608](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92608), [@lubronzhan](https://github.com/lubronzhan)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Fixes an issue where Azure VMSS instances not existing in Azure were not being deleted by the Cloud Controller Manager.  ([#71597](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71597), [@marc-sensenich](https://github.com/marc-sensenich))
* Include CRD for BGPConfigurations, needed for calico 2.x to 3.x upgrade. ([#71868](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71868), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

- NodeLifecycleController: When node lease feature is enabled, node lease will be deleted when the corresponding node is deleted. ([#70034](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70034), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))