</p>

<p>
The return value of <code>recover</code> is <code>nil</code> when the
goroutine is not panicking or <code>recover</code> was not called directly by a deferred function.
Conversely, if a goroutine is panicking and <code>recover</code> was called directly by a deferred function,
the return value of <code>recover</code> is guaranteed not to be <code>nil</code>.

- Fix azure file migration issue ([#97877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97877), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Auth, Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix to recover CSI volumes from certain dangling attachments ([#96617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96617), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

 - The metric `storage_operation_errors_total` is not removed, but is marked deprecated, and the metric `storage_operation_status_count` is marked deprecated. In both cases the `storage_operation_duration_seconds` metric can be used to recover equivalent counts (using `status=fail-unknown` in the case of `storage_operations_errors_total`). ([#99045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99045), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))

- Kubernetes no longer monitors firewalld. On systems using firewalld for firewall
  maintenance, kube-proxy will take slightly longer to recover from disruptive
  firewalld operations that delete kube-proxy's iptables rules.

  As a side effect of these changes, kube-proxy's
  `sync_proxy_rules_last_timestamp_seconds` metric no longer behaves the

`disable-force-detach` CLI option for `kube-controller-manager`. By default, it's set to `false`. When enabled, it prevents force detaching volumes based on maximum unmount time and node status. If activated, the non-graceful node shutdown feature must be used to recover from node failure. Additionally, if a pod needs to be forcibly terminated at the risk of corruption, the appropriate VolumeAttachment object must be deleted. ([#120344](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120344), [@rohitssingh](https:/...

- Fix to recover CSI volumes from certain dangling attachments ([#96617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96617), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

- Fixed bug in reflector that couldn't recover from `Too large resource version` errors with API servers before 1.17.0. ([#115093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115093), [@xuzhenglun](https://github.com/xuzhenglun))

- Kubeadm: removed the deprecated and NO-OP "kubeadm join control-plane-join update-status" phase. ([#124373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124373), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

* Implement graceful shutdown of the kube-apiserver by waiting for open connections to finish before exiting. Moreover, the audit backend will stop dropping events on shutdown. ([#53695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53695), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))