### Bug or Regression

- Currently, NodeAdded QueueingHint could not always be called because of the internal feature called preCheck.
  It's definitely not something expected for plugin developers,
  and we're trying to eventually remove preCheck completely to fix this.

* Bug fixes

- Fixes a bug in kubeadm that caused init and join to hang indefinitely in specific conditions. ([#85156](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85156), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))
- Kubeadm now includes CoreDNS version 1.6.5

* Fix regression in `v1.JobSpec.backoffLimit` that caused failed Jobs to be restarted indefinitely. ([#63650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63650), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

- Kubelet detected terminal CSI volume mount failures due to exceeded attachment limits on the node and marked the Stateful Pod as Failed, allowing its controller to recreate it. This prevented Pods from getting stuck indefinitely in the `ContainerCreating` state. ([#132933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132933), [@torredil](https://github.com/torredil)) [SIG Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]

- Fixed a bug in the garbage collector controller which could block indefinitely due to a cache sync failure. This fix allows the garbage collector to eventually continue garbage collecting other resources if a given resource cannot be listed or watched. Any objects in the unsynced resource type with owner references with ...

- kubeadm now can join the cluster with pre-existing client certificate if provided ([#66482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66482), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
- kubeadm will no longer hang indefinitely if there is no Internet connection and --kubernetes-version is not specified.([#65676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65676), [@dkoshkin](https://github.com/dkoshkin))

* Fix regression in `v1.JobSpec.backoffLimit` that caused failed Jobs to be restarted indefinitely. ([#63650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63650), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

* Fixes a bug in kubeadm that caused init and join to hang indefinitely in specific conditions. ([#85156](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85156), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))

* Fix erroneous FailedSync and FailedMount events being periodically and indefinitely posted on Pods after kubelet is restarted ([#44781](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44781), [@wongma7](https://github.com/wongma7))