### Other notable changes

* Support German cloud for azure disk mount feature ([#50673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50673), [@clement-buchart](https://github.com/clement-buchart))
* BugFix: Exited containers are not Garbage Collected by the kubelet while the pod is running ([#53167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53167), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- `kubeadm`: now respects user provided `kubeconfig` during discovery process ([#113998](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113998), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))
- `kubectl port-forward` now exits with exit code 1 when remote connection is
  lost ([#114460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114460), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley))

* `kubeadm join` is now blocking on the kubelet performing the TLS Bootstrap properly. Earlier, `kubeadm join` only did the discovery part and exited successfully without checking that the kubelet actually started properly and performed the TLS bootstrap correctly. Now, as kubeadm runs some post-join steps (for example, annotating the Node API object with the CRISocket), `kubeadm join` is now waiting...

* Add metrics exporter to the fluentd-gcp deployment ([#45096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45096), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Fix the bug where StartedAt time is not reported for exited containers. ([#45977](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45977), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

- The `kubectl patch` command no longer exits with exit code 1 when a redundant patch results in a no-op ([#66725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66725), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))

- Kubeadm: do not exit with an error if the "super-admin.conf" cannot create a ClusterRoleBinding for the "cluster-admin" user, due to the ClusterRoleBInding already existing. ([#125821](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125821), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))...

- Add `container_state` label to `running_container_count` kubelet metrics, to get count of containers based on their state(running/exited/created/unknown) ([#81573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81573), [@irajdeep](https://github.com/irajdeep))

  - Migrate `pkg/kubelet/(dockershim, network)` to structured logging
  Exit code changed from 255 to 1 ([#98939](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98939), [@yangjunmyfm192085](https://github.com/yangjunmyfm192085)) [SIG Network and Node]
  - Migrate `pkg/kubelet/certificate` to structured logging

* Fixes discovery information for scale subresources in the apps API group ([#54683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54683), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* BugFix: Exited containers are not Garbage Collected by the kubelet while the pod is running ([#53167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53167), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

FastAPI 0.106.0, raising exceptions after `yield` was not possible, the exit code in dependencies with `yield` was executed *after* the response was sent, so [Exception Handlers](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/handling-errors/#install-custom-exception-handlers) would have already run.

This was designed this way mainly to allow using the same objects "yielded" by dependencies inside of background tasks, because the exit code would be executed after the background tasks were finished....