- Enabled use of pods with volumes and user namespaces. The feature gate was renamed from `UserNamespacesStatelessPodsSupport`...

- Updates that remove remaining `metadata.finalizers` from  an object that is pending deletion (non-nil metadata.deletionTimestamp) and has no graceful deletion pending (nil or 0 metadata.deletionGracePeriodSeconds) now results in immediate deletion of the object. ([#77952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77952), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Other notable changes

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

   ([#120111](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120111), [@newtondev](https://github.com/newtondev))
- When using a claim with immediate allocation and a pod referencing that claim couldn't get scheduled, the scheduler incorrectly may have tried to deallocate that claim. ([#122415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122415), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

- In the `wait.PollUntilContextTimeout` function, if `immediate` is true, the condition will now be invoked before waiting, guaranteeing that the condition is invoked at least once and then wait a interval before executing again. ([#119762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119762), [@AxeZhan](ht...

## Changelog since v1.18.8

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- "unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims" causes UnschedulableAndUnresolvable status rather than an Error in the scheduler. ([#93892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93892), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

  This behavior is limited to Jobs with `.spec.podFailurePolicy` set, and only when those two feature
  gates are both enabled.
  If either of these requirements is not satisfied, the Job controller counts a terminating Pod as an immediate
  failure, even if that Pod later terminates with `phase: "Succeeded"`. ([#113860](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113860), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

## Dependencies

- Build: Enable kube-cross image-building on K8s Infra ([#88595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88595), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release and Testing]
- Fix /readyz to return error immediately after a shutdown is initiated, before the --shutdown-delay-duration has elapsed. ([#88953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88953), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

- If `kubeadm reset` finds no etcd member ID for the peer it removes during the `remove-etcd-member` phase, it continues immediately to other phases, instead of retrying the phase for up to 3 minutes before continuing. ([#117948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117948), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- DRA: The `DynamicResourceAllocation`...