- The job controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are multiple new failures in a reconciliation cycle, all the failures are taken into account to compute the back-off. Previously, the back-off kicked in for all types of failures; with this change, only pod failures are taken into account. If the back-off limits exceeds, the job is marked as failed immediately; before this change, the job is marked as failed in the...

- Changed apiserver to treat failures decoding a mutating webhook patch as failures to call the webhook so they trigger the webhook failurePolicy and count against metrics like `webhook_fail_open_count` ([#131627](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131627), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG...

- Previously, the scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, potentially resulting in missed cluster events and Pods rejected by Extenders being stuck in the unschedulable pod pool for up to 5 minutes in the worst-case scenario. Now, the scheduling queue notices extenders' failures and requeues Pods rejected by Extenders appropriately.

* Deprecate the beta labels for zones ("failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone") and  ([#81431](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81431), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
    * regions ("failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region") in favor of their GA equivalents:
    * "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region".

- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.

    
    A side-effect of using this new image was that the networking packages
    (namely `iptables`) drifted from the versions used in the kube-proxy images.
  
    The following issues were filed on kube-proxy failures when using hyperkube:
    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92275
    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92272
    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92250
  

    * Add support for kube-proxy cluster-cidr option to kubernetes-worker charm

    * Fix kubernetes-master charm starting services before TLS certs are saved

    * Fix kubernetes-worker charm failures in LXD

    * Fix stop hook failure on kubernetes-worker charm

    * Fix handling of juju kubernetes-worker.restart-needed state

    * Fix nagios checks in charms

    
    A side-effect of using this new image was that the networking packages
    (namely `iptables`) drifted from the versions used in the kube-proxy images.
  
    The following issues were filed on kube-proxy failures when using hyperkube:
    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92275
    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92272
    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92250
  

- Fixes an issue where StatefulSet might not restart a pod after eviction or node failure. ([#121389](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121389), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska)) [SIG Apps and Testing]
- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,

* fix the create azure file pvc failure if there is no storage account in current resource group ([#56557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56557), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Increase allowed lag for ssh key sync loop in tunneler to allow for one failure ([#60068](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60068), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))