- Fixed `JobTrackingWithFinalizers` that:
  - was declaring a job finished before counting all the created pods in the status
  - was leaving pods with finalizers, blocking pod and job deletions
   `JobTrackingWithFinalizers` is still disabled by default. ([#109486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109486), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

* StatefulSet: The deprecated `pod.alpha.kubernetes.io/initialized` annotation for interrupting StatefulSet Pod management is now ignored. If you were setting it to `true` or leaving it unset, no action is required. However, if you were setting it to `false`, be aware that previously-dormant StatefulSets may become active after upgrading. ([#49251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49251), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))...

- Fix scoring for `NodeResourcesMostAllocated` and `NodeResourcesBalancedAllocation` plugins when nodes have containers with no requests. This was leaving to under-utilization of small nodes. ([#102925](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102925), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

- Since golang 1.17 both net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR rejects leading zeros in the dot-decimal notation of IPv4 addresses,
  Kubernetes will keep allowing leading zeros on IPv4 address to not break the compatibility.
  IMPORTANT: Kubernetes interprets leading zeros on IPv4 addresses as decimal, users must not rely on parser alignment to not being impacted by the associated security advisory:

- Add limited lines to log when having tail option ([#93920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93920), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0)) [SIG Node]
- Avoid systemd-logind loading configuration warning ([#97950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97950), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

- Add --experimental-logging-sanitization flag enabling runtime protection from leaking sensitive data in logs ([#96370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96370), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Add a StorageVersionAPI feature gate that makes API server update storageversions before serving certain write requests. 

### Bug or Regression

- Fix JobTrackingWithFinalizers that:
  - was declaring a job finished before counting all the created pods in the status
  - was leaving pods with finalizers, blocking pod and job deletions
  

* Fixed a bug in the apiserver storage that could cause just-added finalizers to be ignored on an immediately following delete request, leading to premature deletion. ([#77619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77619), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

- Kubeadm: add the deprecated flag --port=0 to kube-controller-manager and kube-scheduler manifests to disable insecure serving. Without this flag the components by default serve (e.g. /metrics) insecurely on the default node interface (controlled by --address). Users that wish to override this behavior and enable insecure serving can pass a custom --port=X via kubeadm's "extraArgs" mechanic for these components. ([#92720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92720),...

- Fixed clearing of rate-limiter for the queue of checks for cleaning stale pod disruption conditions. The bug could result in the PDB synchronization updates firing too often or the pod disruption cleanups taking too long to happen. ([#114770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114770),...