With this patch, the external provisioner can remove the finalizer in next reconcile loop. Unfortunately if the provious existing pv has the Failed state, this patch won't take effort. It requires users to remove finalizer. ([#126043](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126043), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

  
  With this patch, the external provisioner can remove the finalizer in next reconcile loop. Unfortunately if the provious existing pv has the Failed state, this patch won't take effort. It requires users to remove finalizer. ([#125767](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125767), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

  In addition, when this feature is enabled, the 'details' field of 'Status' from the LIST response
  includes information that identifies the corrupt object(s).
  NOTE: unsafe deletion ignores finalizer constraints, and skips precondition checks.
  WARNING: this may break the workload associated with the resource being unsafe-deleted, if it relies on

  
  With this patch, the external provisioner can remove the finalizer in next reconcile loop. Unfortunately if the provious existing pv has the Failed state, this patch won't take effort. It requires users to remove finalizer. ([#126044](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126044), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

### Apps

- Support Service Topology ([#72046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72046), [@m1093782566](https://github.com/m1093782566))

- Set `PodMaxUnschedulableQDuration` as 5 min. ([#108761](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108761), [@denkensk](https://github.com/denkensk))
- Support in-tree PV deletion protection finalizer. ([#108400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108400), [@deepakkinni](https://github.com/deepakkinni))

  
  With this patch, the external provisioner can remove the finalizer in next reconcile loop. Unfortunately if the provious existing pv has the Failed state, this patch won't take effort. It requires users to remove finalizer. ([#126045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126045), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

- `metadata.deletionTimestamp` is no longer moved into the future when issuing repeated DELETE requests against a resource containing a finalizer. ([#73138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73138), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- kube-apiserver: the `StorageObjectInUseProtection` admission plugin added the `kubernetes.io/vac-protection` finalizer to the given VolumeAttributesClass object when it is created if the feature-gate `VolumeAttributesClass` is turned on and `storage.k8s.io/v1beta1` is enabled. ([#130553](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130553), [@Phaow](https://github.com/Phaow))...

- Finalizer Protection for Service LoadBalancers (ServiceLoadBalancerFinalizer) has been added as an Alpha feature, which is disabled by default. This feature ensures the Service resource is not fully deleted until the correlating load balancer resources are...