*   DaemonSet status includes a new field named `conditions`, making it consistent with other workloads controllers. ([#55272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55272),[ @janetkuo](https://github.com/janetkuo))

- Improved performance of `Endpoint` and `EndpointSlice` controllers when there are a large number of services in a single namespace by making pod-to-service lookup asynchronous. ([#134739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134739), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG Apps and Network]

([#45003](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45003), [@krmayankk](https://github.com/krmayankk))

* Deployments are updated to use (1) a more stable hashing algorithm (fnv) than the previous one (adler) and (2) a hashing collision avoidance mechanism that will ensure new rollouts will not block on hashing collisions anymore. ([#44774](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44774), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))([kubernetes/features#287](https://github.com/...

- Gracefully delete nodes when their parent scale set went missing ([#95289](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95289), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Running `kubectl create secret` no longer accepts passing multiple values to a single --from-literal flag using comma separation
  * Update command invocations to pass separate --from-literal flags for each value

### RBAC

  - Base pricing of custom instances on their instance family type
  - Add pricing information for missing machine types
  - Add pricing information for different GPU types
  - Ignore the new `topology.gke.io/zone` label when comparing groups
  - Add missing stable labels to template nodes
  
  ### HuaweiCloud
  - Add auto scaling group support
  - Implement node group by AS

- Filter published OpenAPI schema by making nullable, required fields non-required in order to avoid kubectl to wrongly reject null values. ([#85722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85722), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

  - Base pricing of custom instances on their instance family type
  - Add pricing information for missing machine types
  - Add pricing information for different GPU types
  - Ignore the new `topology.gke.io/zone` label when comparing groups
  - Add missing stable labels to template nodes
  
  ### HuaweiCloud
  - Add auto scaling group support
  - Implement node group by AS

[Prevents deletion of Persistent Volume Claims that are used by a pod](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/498) and [Persistent Volumes that are bound to a Persistent Volume Claim](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/499), making it impossible to delete storage that is in use by a pod.

This release also includes [Topology Aware Volume Scheduling](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/490) for local persistent volumes, the stable release of [Detailed...

- Kubeadm: instead of passing the etcd flag --experimental-initial-corrupt-check, set the InitialCorruptCheck=true etcd feature gate, and instead of passing the --experimental-watch-progress-notify-interval flag, pass its graduated variant --watch-progress-notify-interval. ([#132838](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132838),...